World & Nation
The accounting of casualties has been slow, in part due to communication difficulties with the affected areas.
Sept. 17, 2024
The groups say they have captured two strategic towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the regional military headquarters, and Mogok, a gem-mining center.
July 25, 2024
An intensification of fighting in Myanmar’s civil war brings more attacks on schools, says a group monitoring conflict in the Southeast Asian nation.
July 20, 2024
L.A. Influential
Los Angeles teachers union leader Cecily Myart-Cruz, who is also a parent, pushes an agenda that goes well beyond traditional contract demands.
June 23, 2024
Myanmar civil war: Resistance forces make huge gains, but civilian casualties are rising as the military government’s troops use scorched-earth tactics.
May 9, 2024
Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest amid a regional heat wave, the military government has announced.
April 16, 2024
California
Ten public schools, with extra resources, will be able to develop their own student measures to replace a bevy of standardized tests that L.A. Unified is currently using.
Sept. 12, 2024
Myanmar’s military says it’s reached a cease-fire deal with an alliance of three ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the north.
Jan. 12, 2024
Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China.
Jan. 6, 2024
The strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949 has flooded roads with water and broken tree branches and knocked out power to some homes.
Sept. 16, 2024