A junta transport minister-led delegation to Moscow pitched Myanmar’s ports and railways as a gateway for Russian goods amid ...

Mogoke residents accuse the armed group of monopolizing ruby sites, sidelining small miners, and scarring the landscape despite promises of regulation.

Sui Khar, the vice-chairman of the Chin National Front (CNF), says that Myanmar’s civil war is approaching a tipping point, ...

UNITED NATIONS – Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N. envoy warned on Tuesday. Julie Bishop told the ...

This article by Zung Ring was originally published on May 27, 2025, on The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar that has been exiled in Thailand since the military coup in 2021.An edited ...

Unregulated mining has boomed since the 2021 military coup, causing ecological damage both within Myanmar and in downstream countries. Image courtesy of Ecological Alert and Recovery–Thailand.

Lin Latt Shwe, 6, was detained along with her mother and other suspects in the killing of retired general in Yangon.

Former Brig. Gen. Cho Tun Aung, 68, was shot outside his home in Mayangon township, in Yangon, the country's biggest city, on May 22.

In recent years, people in Myanmar have endured a military coup, civil war, enforced conscription, aerial bombardment and a devastating earthquake.A new hardship landed Thursday morning, as ...

Myanmar’s military government has awarded its first offshore production sharing contract since seizing power in February 2021. State-owned Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE) under the nation’s ...

Thingyan, celebrated around the same time as Songkran, is Myanmar’s traditional New Year festival. It marks a time of purification and renewal, where locals pour water over each other to wash ...

Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...