News About Myanmar

While regional attention is fixed on combating scam compounds and environmentally destructive rare earth mining in Myanmar and their entanglement with China, another, quieter dynamic is unfolding just across the border. Away from the headlines, Beijing is quietly applying its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) playbook by courting Thailand’s most underdeveloped frontier regions. In northern Thailand, especially along the Thai–Myanmar border, China is wielding the language of conn

Date – 24 December 2025 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (7,627) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians, have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution. Since the coup, a total of (30,187) people have been arrested by the junta in relation to its seizure of power. (22,679) are currently in detention, (11,425) of whom are serving sentences. These are the numbers verified by the Assistance Association for Political

The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly end US support for refugees is dramatically reshaping the humanitarian landscape along the Indo-Myanmar border

Myanmar’s military regime will hold a multi-phased general election starting on Sunday, even as a civil war rages across large parts of the Southeast Asian country. Why is Myanmar holding an election? The military ousted the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a February 2021 coup, just as it was preparing for its second term in office following a landslide election win months earlier. The generals accused Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NL

Nearly five years after it seized power, Myanmar’s military is moving ahead with a multi-phase general election starting on Sunday, despite conflict across the country. Here is a timeline of key moments in Myanmar’s recent history: NOVEMBER 2015: Myanmar holds its second general election since the end of five decades of military rule in 2011. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party win by a landslide, routing the military-backed ruling Unio

From inside a military base last week, Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing announced who he wanted voters to pick in Sunday’s general election, nearly five years after seizing power in a 2021 military coup. “He suggested that during the upcoming election period, voters should choose candidates who can cooperate with the [military],” regime media reported. The comments underline the regime’s attempts to hold on to power as it uses ballots to do what it couldn’t on the battle