To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

Also this week we locate the junta’s emergency minister in Russia studying how to deal with a falling glacier.

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

Oil worth US$150 million from Magwe onshore fields has gone straight to the junta to fuel airstrikes on civilians and other ...

Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents’ daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is ...

Min Aung Hlaing praises China as an ‘eternal good neighbor’, vowing to safeguard its investments following Beijing’s ...

No elections can be held under a state of emergency, meaning the regime’s vaunted polls will now have to wait until at least the second half of 2025.

A visiting Chinese public security minister said scam-center gangs employ more than 100,000 callers, with those in Myanmar’s ...

Seven US-funded clinics, servicing around 80,000 refugees from Myanmar, have closed since the new US administration froze funding.

Myanmar’s armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in ...

The UN’s IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.

In his New Year’s address, Peng Daxun dropped his previous anti-junta rhetoric and focused on working with China to boost stability and development in the Kokang region.