Southeast Asian leaders have said they are “deeply concerned” about the violence and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Myanmar, in a statement at the end of the Asean summit in Kuala ...

Now, in the hillsides of Shan state in eastern Myanmar, Chinese miners are opening new deposits for extraction. Copper $ 5.0665 / lb -0.83% Brent Crude Oil $ 67.12 / bbl 0.46% ...

Throughout Myanmar’s turbulent recent history, China has strongly supported its military junta. In 2015, Beijing sold Myanmar’s regime 11 units of its newer JF-17 fighter jet, delivering the ...

A Myanmar junta jet that crashed in a war zone this week killed four people as it smashed into a village where civilians were sheltering from fighting, a local official said Friday.

A Chinese-backed militia has taken control of new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to a Reuters report, citing sources. China, which dominates the processing of heavy rare earths, relies ...

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has directed ambassadors and consuls-general to clarify three key issues – US tariffs, unrest in Myanmar, and the border dispute with Cambodia – to foreign ...

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 ...

Western countries have mostly disengaged from Myanmar’s struggle for democracy. But since a military junta seized power four years ago, China has stepped up its activities in the country.

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.

Security forces in military-ruled Myanmar have arrested a six-year-old girl along with 15 other people suspected of involvement in the assassination of a retired high-ranking army officer. Myanmar ...

Since the coup, Myanmar's junta has arrested over 29,000 people, including more than 6,000 women and 600 children, according to the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, an activist group.