The U.S. has sanctioned Myanmar's military junta and refused to acknowledge its rule, so Mr. Trump's personal letter to its ...

By Naw Betty Han, Devjyot Ghoshal, Shoon Naing and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) -The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing praised Donald Trump in a rare letter and compared his military’s coup to the US ...

Diplomats from Asia, the US, and Russia to push ‘all parties’ involved in the conflict to halt indiscriminate violence on ...

They’re shiny metals, can be hard to find and they’re essential to building high-tech equipment — from electric cars to fighter jets. “Rare earth metals” are dominated by one country: China. Once ...

Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

The Kachin Independence Organisation’s spokesperson made the claim amid reports that Gen. N’Ban La was under house arrest by ...

Zhong’s case is not an isolated one. Just months earlier, Chinese actor Wang Xing was similarly tricked into travelling to ...

Anwar stressed that the first such meeting by an ASEAN chair since the 2021 coup was mandated to secure a ceasefire and ...

It is now using its dominance to shore up Myanmar's beleaguered junta, which China sees as a guarantor of its economic interests in its backyard.