Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center ...

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group's headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. (Photo by Paul Vrieze / VOA/ public domain ...

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

THE raid last week on a scam farm in Makati City, which led to the arrest of 100 people, indicates that former Philippine ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

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Four years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven ...

The Australian former special economic adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned for 21 months by the Myanmar junta that ...

The onetime boom-town has struggled to adapt to domestic policy shifts, anti-fraud campaigns, and the escalating civil war ...

YANGON: On January 17, thousands of residents in Hsihseng were forced to flee their homes as fighting escalated in southern Shan State, according to reports. The conflict erupted between the Pa-O ...

cutting electricity to Myanmar towns and taking other measures to end the fighting. China has reopened its border gates linking with the areas controlled by the MNDAA and the United Wa State Army, ...