Fleeing residents said the junta is committing war crimes in Monywa, Chaung-U and Salingyi, deliberately attacking civilian targets including a displaced persons camp.

I've learned to look for unexpected developmental leaps that can create entirely new opportunities while keeping one foot ...

While supporters and opponents of Myanmar’s military government are engaged in a bloody civil war, both sides can celebrate something worthy: the use of thanakha, a yellowish-white paste made from gro ...

Catholic leaders and faithful in Myanmar hold a banner featuring the Virgin Mary during the Jubilee Year 2025 celebration in ...

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

A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful as the property in a country embroiled in a civil war failed to attract an ...

Myanmar's junta failed in an attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for ...

YANGON—Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become ...

In 2012, tens of thousands were driven out of mixed communities and forced to live in squalid camps. The worst violence came in 2017 when the Myanmar military carried out a brutal clearance ...

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 ...

Myanmar's junta extended a state of emergency by six months on Friday (January 31, 2025), four years after it seized power triggering a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives. The country ...

Myanmar's military junta has announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for elections it has said will be held this year, as the country enters its fifth year ...