By Larissa Liao, Kevin Krolicki and Poppy McPherson BEIJING/BANGKOK (Reuters) -The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to land – only not as a reality star.

YANGON: A 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted western Myanmar at about 1.53am local time on Friday (Jan 24), the country's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) reported.

The epicenter of the earthquake is said to be at Homalin town,Hkamti district in Myanmar’s Northern Sagaing division

China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast.

The National Unity Government must be honest with the public about what the recent arrest warrant application does – and does not – entail.

Hyderabad: A moderate earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck Myanmar, with tremors being felt across various parts of Assam. The earthquake’s epicentre was located at latitude 24.68° N and longitude 94.87° E, inside Myanmar, about 9 miles east-southeast of Homalin.

The Myanmar military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) signed a formal agreement for a ceasefire that began on Saturday, China's foreign ministry said, halting fighting near the border of both countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has rejected claims by Myanmar's junta that Thailand is partly to blame for the proliferation of online scam centres in Myanmar, saying the problem is a complicated matter that concerns multiple parties.

Volunteers have been joining the effort to keep emergency medical operations going for civilians and wounded fighters in eastern Kayah State.

The Myanmar Armed Forces' Directorate of Drone Warfare has begun deploying a new, indigenously manufactured one-way unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) across

The Myanmar government and the Kokang alliance army have reached an official ceasefire agreement, set to begin on Saturday, with China playing a pivotal role in facilitating the talks held in Kunming,

The agreement between the military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army came after months of Chinese pressure to return to political dialogue.