The death toll from the devastating earthquake that rattled Burma and Thailand on Friday has risen sharply to more than 1,650 ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

A World War II veteran in Franklin is celebrating a remarkable milestone today. Jay Opie, who resides at Vitality Living in ...

Even before a powerful 7.7-magnitude quake hit Myanmar, more than 3 million people in the country faced displacement.

To the list of World War II specialists in close combat—Edson ... At Pearl Harbor time he was on the way to Burma on a mission for Douglas MacArthur. Merrill stayed with Stilwell, became ...

Students at Comsewogue High School in the Comsewogue School District have joined a cross-cultural humanitarian effort to ...

Emergency rescue teams on Sunday began trickling into the area of Myanmar hardest hit by a massive earthquake that killed ...

The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people ... is the only country in the world like this,” he said.