Less than ten years ago, hardly anyone knew what the term “Rohingya” meant. Today, it is tied to one of the clearest crises of forced displacement in our time.

All of this marks a stunning reversal for Myanmar’s revolutionaries. At the end of 2024 they appeared to have the junta on ...

Myanmar will hold the first round of voting in a general election on Sunday in what its military government says will usher in a return to civilian rule following a 2021 coup.

Lee este artículo en español. There was probably a time when your home was brimming with bookshelves, stuffed to the gills with novels you have already read or yet plan to read. These days, a single ...

As the junta readies to hold its sham vote, The Irrawaddy revisits a collection of stories that examine the military’s long history of rigging polls to entrench its rule.

Linn Nhyo Taryar's past has been anything but safe and secure, thanks to his prophesying profession. As protests erupted ...

Wen-Chin Chang traces the lives of migrants, spies and guerrillas who shaped the hidden history of the China-Myanmar border region.