From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...
The Myanmar junta’s highly publicised crackdown on cyberfraud hubs near its borders is less a law enforcement statement than a calculated performance, analysts say, aimed at placating China and ...
Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity? TPS status protects ...
The Trump administration on Monday said it would end yet another Temporary Protected Status immigration program, this time for nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance ...
Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...
YANGON: A teacher from Basic Education Post-Primary School No.17 in Pakokku Township, Magway Region, was reportedly abducted by the People's Defence Force (PDF) on June 14. Daw Zin Mi Hlaing (28 years ...
Flies hovered over the blackened and swollen bodies of men and boys, lying side-by-side on a piece of tarpaulin, in blood-soaked combat fatigues, amid preparations for a rushed cremation in the Tamu ...
Myanmar is caught in a scramble for minerals. Their exploitation is causing deaths and environmental harm in the country's Kachin State, activists tell DW. Can the ...
ASEAN remains divided on the Myanmar crisis, with internal rifts undermining efforts to implement its Five-Point Consensus. China’s influence has pressured ASEAN to act, but its reliance on external ...