On April 22, at a packed, black-tie ceremony in New York City, the Myanmar president, represented by minister Aung Min, accepted an award from the respected global NGO International Crisis Group for ...

Now Myanmar’s university system is in shambles. The lecturer, Zar Chi Nway, makes her living by crocheting clothes, small ...

The second phase of elections is underway in Myanmar this weekend. It’s the first election since the ruling military regime seized power five years ago, but with major opposition parties barred from ...

As Myanmar’s military pushes forward with its plan to consolidate power through sham elections, the Trump administration may be looking to bring the junta in from the cold. The military junta that ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has jumped to its highest level in a decade, rising 17 percent over the past year due to the country’s conflict and the attendant economic hardship, the United ...

RSF said the junta’s claim that media will be allowed to cover the election "is simply a tactic to legitimise new restrictions." This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 4 November 2025.

Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the ruling junta has suppressed the human rights of the population, intensified abuses in the country’s decades-long armed conflicts, and ...