The influencer was arrested by the Myanmar authorities in December. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Exporters are being punished for failing to deposit their earnings in junta-controlled banks and exchanging 25 percent of them at the derisory official exchange rate.

An Indonesian citizen, identified by the initials AP, who is an Instagram celebrity, was arrested by Myanmar authorities on ...

Meanwhile, the official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, mentioned that the detained ...

As more people seek work abroad or find other means to escape mandatory military service, the junta has tightened ...

The junta’s jury-rigged “peace forum” with a handful of regime-aligned or noncommittal groups is solely aimed at gaining ...

If confirmed, the capture of Lashio would be the biggest victory for Myanmar’s anti-junta resistance since the 2021 coup and mark a turning point in the civil war.

Myanmar's military junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun speaks during the information ministry's press conference in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 23, 2021. Stringer/Reuters.

The military regime hopes to secure vital funding through Brics, but experts say its credibility hangs by a thread Myanmar's ...

Myanmar’s pro-democracy forces offer the only pathway to a durable peace. ... The junta is facing military setbacks at the hands of an alliance of opposition forces across the country.

For close to three years, Myanmar’s junta has held down the fort. It interrupted the country’s fledgling, imperfect exercise in democracy with its Feb. 1, 2021, coup that threw out a civilian ...

Myanmar’s junta government doesn’t often want others to intervene in its affairs. Years of internal strife and alleged human rights abuses in the authoritarian-led Southeast Asian nation have ...