When Britain conquered Burma, the last king's most treasured possession - an enormous, priceless ruby - disappeared. Who took it, where did it go, and where is it now? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ...

The Burmese ruby that wore the auction crown before the Estrela de Fura sold for $30.3 million ... But provenance alone isn't enough. The gems must be verified as natural, meaning they have not been ...

THE accompanying photographs of the mud volcanoes of Minbu in Upper Burma may be of interest to readers of NATURE. Minbu is on the Irrawaddy, near the oil-fields of Yenangyaung. The volcanoes are ...

Find out what Queen Elizabeth wore to protect her from evil and where the most-cursed piece of jewelry in the world is located.

The world's rarest gemstone is made of kyawthuite, a transparent reddish-orange mineral that’s known from just one sample ...

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

On Friday, The Irrawaddy newspaper published an article that offered a curious insight into the inner workings of Myanmar’s military ... The medal also features a ruby with a diameter of 8.8 ...

Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help. From interviews with Rohingyas living in ...

Myanmar’s military has been ramping up its use of drones, deploying a combination of retrofitted commercial drones and customized military munitions to carry out a torrent of deadly strikes ...

Myanmar's junta has widened its campaign of airstrikes as it battles for survival on multiple fronts against ethnic armies and forces that sprang up to oppose to its 2021 coup, a monitoring group ...

But a new report out Wednesday shows that internet freedoms in China’s neighbor Myanmar are now just as lacking. The report from Freedom House, a US government-funded NGO, found that global ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken will represent the United States at summits with Asian leaders in Laos this week and expects to discuss human rights in Myanmar ...