The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more ...

After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing ...

More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue ...

It has been more than a week since Akbar, a Rohingya refugee in India, has heard his niece’s voice, the longest they have not spoken to each other. She is among more than 40 Rohingya alleged by the ...

The suicide rate began rising during the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued to increase since the coup as financial hardship, political repression and the collapse of the healthcare system take a ...

Local politicians in a border region known for its frequent outbreaks of violence hope to transform it into the “next Macau”, but will have to overcome instability, politics and corruption to achieve ...

A supposed crackdown on cyber scam operations in Myawaddy Township has only masked their relocation, with the Kayin BGF and DKBA helping Chinese criminal syndicates set up shop farther south in Three ...

The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape. Headlight beams ...

After suffering successive humiliating election defeats, the military is rewriting the rules in a bid to legitimise its illegal coup ­– but will anybody take the bait? It seemed clear from the ...

Some powerful ethnic armed groups are increasingly throwing their weight behind Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, seemingly defying China and other allies to take on the military. A pickup truck with ...

Street protesters are using women’s clothing and even sanitary products to deter police and soldiers, weaponising the outdated belief that they can lessen a man’s power. Before February 1, Thudhamma ...

Despite rising financial pressures to supply weapons and provide public services in its territory, the KIO cancelled a major business deal in response to protests from local communities trying to ...