James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and ...

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in over a century, killed more than 3,700 people and ...

Pray for a new pope who will build on his legacy of mercy and hope, stand up for religious freedom and human dignity ...

Russia’s big bet on Myanmar is aimed at expanding its “near abroad” beyond the post-Soviet space into southern Asia.

My life as a Catholic has been intertwined with Pope Francis since the beginning of his pontificate. I was received into the ...

Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 this morning, the ...

While the United States talked military assistance and minerals with Ukraine, Russia did the same with one of its few ...

In Myanmar, rebel forces, led by ethnic minorities, are capturing more territory and wearing the military junta down. How ...

The Asean chair hopes for progress from his meeting with Min Aung Hlaing, but will it give the isolated junta a propaganda ...

In February that year, however, the military again grabbed power after ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a coup. This sent the country spiralling towards civil war and ...

Last week, its troops shot at a Chinese Red Cross convoy carrying aid to earthquake victims – not a wise move, given that Beijing is ... elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and thousands have ...