To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...
For internal transportation, visitors can choose trains, buses, and domestic flights, although the railway infrastructure is ...
Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.
Myanmar’s fragile, nascent quasi-democracy was snuffed out after less than a decade of experimenting with limited reform and ...
Background Since gaining independence from British rule in 1948, Myanmar has grappled with effective governance in its multiethnic society. After a coup in 1962, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military ...
Unlike schools under the military regime’s control, Thaw Hti explained that her school teaches children in the Karen language and teaches a Karen-centred version of Myanmar history that includes ...
Last year alone, according to one source, armed groups such as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), the Rohingya ...
An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...
Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain on ...
After cutting off aid to refugees and opponents of Myanmar’s military regime, the Trump administration is hiring officials ...