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.

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 ...

A Burmese python that had caused concern among residents in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was captured Wednesday after being spotted again following an initial sighting during Thanksgiving.

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

Myanmar, also known as Burma, will hold a phased general election starting later this month. It comes amidst a years long ...

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit seen as lending support to the Southeast Asian country’s military government in advance of a widely condemned ...

Myanmar’s junta made a grand display of demolishing buildings that hosted the centers, even broadcasting the explosions. But the scammers have found new homes. By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Bangkok ...

Myanmar’s planned late-December elections are unfolding in what UN rights officials describe as an atmosphere of fear, violence and deep political repression, with thousands detained and major parties ...

The Myanmar junta’s highly publicised crackdown on cyberfraud hubs near its borders is less a law enforcement statement than a calculated performance, analysts say, aimed at placating China and ...