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 ...

Myanmar has been fighting a many-sided civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, leaving more than 3.5 million people displaced.

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 ...

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 ...

Myanmar authorities have arrested 16 people including a six-year-old girl over the assassination of a retired general shot dead in Yangon last month, state media said. Cho Tun Aung, a former ...

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 ...

Trump announced on Wednesday that citizens of 12 countries, including Myanmar, would be banned from visiting the United States. Seven more countries face heightened travel restrictions.

Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leading source of reliable news, information, and analysis on Burma/Myanmar and the Southeast Asian ...

China shares a 2,100-kilometre (1,300-mile) border with Myanmar and has long been a lucrative market for the country's natural resources, including jade, gemstones, teak logs and metal ores.

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 ...

A 2024 report by the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP) Myanmar, a Thailand-based think tank and Myanmar policy research institute, stated that the NSAGs now control five of the 17 official ...

I n March a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, in which 3,740 people died. And yet the earthquake is not the main humanitarian crisis in that troubled country. Since Myanmar’s military junta ...