Human Rights Watch has accused the ethnic Arakan Army (AA) of committing grave abuses against the Rohingya population in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In a statement released Monday, the rights ...

A defector tells The Irrawaddy that the regime is recruiting mentally unstable people and men above the maximum age.

This week, the junta strengthened ties with Beijing, pushed to reclaim China trade route, sought foreign help for electricity crisis, showered Shan troops with promotions, and hailed Aung San Suu ...

Rights watchdog Justice For Myanmar (JFM) on Friday called for sanctions on the Chinese state-owned defense corporation Norinco for arming Myanmar’s regime. The rights group called on China to stop ...

China and Myanmar capped President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit by signing 33 agreements, including many to advance Beijing’s BRI projects in the country.

Myanmar people have suffered soaring prices for almost all commodities in the three-year period since the February 2021 coup. Rice and edible oil are among their most basic needs and the most ...

Another National League for Democracy (NLD) member has died while under detention by Myanmar’s military regime. Ko Zaw Myat Lin, who was in charge of Suu Vocational Institute in Shwe Pyi Thar Township ...

Serge Pun, the former executive chairman of Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings Limited, was charged with money laundering and other illegal transactions in late July after his month-long ...

The site of fierce recent fighting, Shan State’s Kokang region has a complex history of feuding warlords and thriving drug production.

Bertil Lintner looks at the often devious ways in which China cemented the pauk-phaw or kinship relationship to become the dominant foreign power in Myanmar, sidelining all others.

Myanmar’s military coup in 2021 has triggered a widespread humanitarian crisis but also a breakdown in the rule of law. And the security situation is getting worse by the week. With the rise of ...

Myanmar’s civil war has intensified since the launch of Operation 1027 in 2023, forcing the junta into a defensive stance as it lost dozens of towns and hundreds of bases. However, in 2024, regime ...