Sotheby’s to host Singapore auction of Raden Saleh, Walter Spies, David Hockney and more

Explore upcoming art events in Singapore, including Sotheby's auction featuring Raden Saleh and David Hockney, and new ...

Six must-see shows at Singapore Art Week 2026

See a new print show, explore Moonstone Lane Estate, take refuge in an air raid shelter. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...
PBS

Myanmar has declared a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for cyberscams, but the fraud goes on

It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that ...
Los Angeles Times

Myanmar military acknowledges airstrike on hospital it says opposition used as base

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Myanmar’s military acknowledged an airstrike on a hospital, claiming opposition groups used it as a base; local ...
The New York Times

I Think This Poem Is Kind of Into You

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...
World Bank

Myanmar’s Economy Shows Moderate Signs of Recovery Amid Earthquake and Conflict Impacts

YANGON, December 8, 2025 — Myanmar’s path to economic recovery sees moderate signs of improvement despite significant headwinds, as the country grapples with the ongoing impacts of the March 2025 ...
CNN

Myanmar makes more meth than anywhere else. Opium production there also just hit a decade high, report says

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...
UPI

U.S. terminates deportation protections for Myanmar nationals

Nov. 25 (UPI) --The United States announced it was ending deportation protection for people fleeing from the civil war in Myanmar, the latest nation to have Temporary Protected Status terminated amid ...
Human Rights Watch

Myanmar is Safe?

Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity? TPS status protects ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Poems of Seamus Heaney’ Review: Songs of the Earth

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s Myanmar Project Could End U.S. Sanctions

Review & Outlook: Likening the global threat level to that of 1939, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils reforms to the Pentagon acquisition process that will ‘rebuild the defense industrial ...
East Asia Forum

No stability in Myanmar without democracy

Myanmar’s planned elections are widely expected to be a sham, entrenching military rule and excluding the NLD, which undermines ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus and risks deepening the country’s ...