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

East Timor finally looks set to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year. The country’s accession to the bloc has been a long time coming. More than a decade ago when I first ...

Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.

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

Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This year, looking back four years ago to the coup in 2021, we can see that Myanmar has come a long way, a troubled path of ...