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

But it also represents the final step before the military attempts to hold a national election later this year – the first ...

A new report issued by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Friday noted that garment workers have been faced with ...

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Lucas Myers discusses the latest from Myanmar and how the country has changed since the ...

China and India have been approached for help with solar power projects, the electricity minister says, as the country’s chronic electricity shortages worsen.

Myanmar's military deposed the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains in jail and the country is mired in a brutal civil war.

Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's democratically elected government. They sent tanks into the streets and detained the country's president, as well as ...

Aung Bo Bo, another Yangon resident, bemoaned the power cut timetable that can see houses plunged into darkness 12 hours a ...

A court in Argentina has issued an international arrest warrant for Myanmar’s self-appointed president and junta chief, Sen.

Just how high stakes elections are for Myanmar’s severely weakened military cannot be overstated. While proclamations of its imminent demise have been frequent since the coup, the once unlikely ...

Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

Just a day ahead of the fourth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the government revealed another six-month extension of the state of emergency on Friday. As the country continues to be ...