"We are working to completely eradicate online scam activities from their roots," the Myanmar junta's spokesman Gen Zaw Min Tun said. But there are good reasons for scepticism about the military's claims. Now, for the first time, Myanmar's long civil war and its scam crisis are entwined.

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar have staged a joint protest calling on people to stay indoors to show they are boycotting elections scheduled for late this month

Myanmar's military government has begun broadcasting extensive video on state television of its crackdown on online scam centers.

A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this

TOKYO – Seventy-five percent of respondents to a survey of Myanmar people say that the military should not be involved in governing the country, a Japanese aid organization revealed during a press conference in Tokyo on Monday.

Observers say the junta chief’s claim that the military will eventually exit politics is meaningless in a system engineered to preserve its dominance.

Myanmar’s junta said on Wednesday it was hunting 10 activists who staged an anti-election protest, pursuing them under laws punishing organized dissent against the poll with up to a decade in prison.

Heavy fighting between the Myanmar military and anti-regime resistance forces spilled across the border into Thailand on Friday, when an artillery round landed in a village