Myanmar has become, by some estimates, the current center for global organized crime following the 2021 coup and now meets the definition of a failed state.

Beijing is increasingly shaping the outcome of Myanmar’s civil war, not by supporting one side, but by controlling where ...

About 52 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas have been shipped by the Myanmar-China Gas Pipeline since it went into operation on July 28, 2013, meeting its designed transmission capacity ...

YANGON: The 75th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic ties was marked with events in Yangon and Mandalay on Thursday (June ...

as many of its southwestern provinces rely on the China-Myanmar pipeline for access to oil and gas, according to Tower. Those concerns have likely played a role in China’s decision to help the ...

While Beijing has not publicly explained the closures, Chinese media have cited security concerns around key infrastructure, including the China-Myanmar oil pipeline. Observers see this as a ...

For Myanmar, supplies of food, fertiliser and stable electricity are urgent, and China is addressing this through infrastructure. Since February 2023, the 770 kilometre-long Chinese-operated oil ...

China's strategic interest in Myanmar is securing infrastructure projects like the Sino-Myanmar pipeline, which links Myanmar’s deep-water port of Kyaukphyu in the western part of the country in ...

Much of the world has paid scant attention to Myanmar since the coup. Western countries, which did the most to encourage democracy there in the decade up to 2021, have been consumed with crises in ...