Beijing’s claims to prioritize sovereignty and noninterference mask its true strategic ambition: regional hegemony.

Since the 2021 military coup, the people of Myanmar have continued to endure horrific atrocities and widespread human rights violations. Thousands have been killed, arrested, or tortured, while ...

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

This article is authored by Cchavi Vasisht, senior research associate, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi.

With deportations threatened, the state's growth may hinge in part on immigrants. Here's a breakdown of immigration in ...

But that’s likely an undercount, CPJ said, since censorship and surveillance mean families are ... Bennett added. Myanmar ranked third on the 2024 prison census, with 35 journalists behind ...

The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.

The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) People walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, April 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) Rachel ...

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...