(Reuters) - Poverty in Myanmar is more widespread than at any time in the last six years and growth in the conflict-torn nation is likely to remain at a measly 1% in the current fiscal year with ...

As drugs flood urban areas, recovering addicts, community leaders fear a lost generation is emerging amid ongoing conflict ...

Refugees who have fled Burma to live in Oakland, Calif., are at risk of becoming a permanent, poverty-stricken underclass warns a new report released today by researchers at San Francisco State ...

(CNN) — Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia with a growing middle class, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens ...

Almost half of Myanmar's population of roughly 55 million people is living below the poverty line -- a figure that nearly doubled from 2017 to 2023, a UN report said on April 11. Underscoring the ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy The World Bank predicts the country’s economy to grow by 1 percent this fiscal year, but even that seems optimistic in the current circumstances.

Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. Last ...

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Ahead is a river they can’t afford to cross, behind is hunger and hostility. So hundreds of Rohingya encamped on a black sand beach in Myanmar’s Maungdaw cling to thinning hopes of safe passage to ...

SINGAPORE — The civil war now engulfing Myanmar is driving the population into an acute economic crisis, with the middle class shrinking dramatically and poverty spreading widely, according to a ...