This article is part of a package produced by a group of final-year undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, for the programme Going ...

Amid five years of devastating conflict, young fighters embrace traditional bloodsport as both self-defence and refuge In a ...

It’s been more than 20 years since he fought in a sandpit, but Lone Chaw still recalls the dusty village lots of his youth, unmarked except for footprints stained by sweat and blood. Stamping about in ...

In a country consumed by conflict, a sport defined by brutality dominates: Myanmar’s lethwei martial art, where headbutts are ...

The Myanmar striker recaps his journey to the global stage ahead of his clash with Nadaka.

A traditional Southeast Asian martial art is set to launch as a major international combat league not just in the region, but all over the world. Lethwei, one of the most common fighting arts in ...

World Lethwei Championship, the world’s largest bareknuckle fighting organization, has announced that a second World Lethwei Championship title match has been added to the card at WLC: King of Nine ...

Lethwei fighters once fought only with knuckles bound by cloth. Today, mixed martial arts matches incorporating Lethwei tend to enforce the use of gloves.