While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw materials ...

Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

Juneteenth is a sacred celebration of the end of slavery. But true economic justice is the unfinished business of civil ...

MOSCOW, June 17. /TASS/. Politicians and statesmen from about 50 countries will attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) this year, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told ...

Myanmar's economy is set to shrink 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a result of March's devastating ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar was a rising star in Southeast Asia before its military seized power three years ago in a takeover that has brought civil strife and a tightening vise of international sanctions ...

Black Economic Empowerment was initially introduced by former South African president Nelson Mandela in the 1990s, as one of his government’s policies.

Rats and ‘horrible black tarantulas’: Sean Turnell’s 20 months in prison in Myanmar - The Australian economist and former adviser to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said his time in ...

The Myanmar kyat has been extremely volatile in recent days, plunging to a low of 7,500 to the dollar in the black market last week from 5,000 earlier in the month, according to four foreign ...

The junta’s mismanagement of the economy has led them to rely on the Central Bank of Myanmar to fund their wars and evade sanctions. The bank is a key weapon in the junta’s arsenal against the Myanmar ...

Myanmar’s junta, facing a growing popular rebellion, has plunged the country into economic crisis, reversing gains from a decade of civilian leadership. By Richard C. Paddock With Myanmar’s ...