Five Years After Myanmar Coup, ‘Even Hope Has Become a Risk’

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...
The Diplomat

Military Proxy Party Declared Lopsided Victor in ‘Sham’ Myanmar Election

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won 739 of the 1,025 seats up for grabs in national and provincial ...
The Irrawaddy

Myanmar Junta ‘Selling LNG Power to Factories at Extortionate Rates’

The junta has revived an LNG power generation project in Yangon—but the 24-hour power it provides to industrial zones comes at a hefty price.
The Irrawaddy

Five Years After the Coup, Myanmar Is Worse Off Than Ever

Five years after the coup, inflation has risen nearly 10 times, from 2.3 percent in the 2020–21 fiscal year to 22 percent in 2025–26, according to the World Bank’s Myanmar Economic Monitor.
CNN

China executes 11 members of gang who ran billion-dollar criminal empire in Myanmar

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.
BBC

China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia

China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report. The Ming family members were sentenced in September for ...
Human Rights Watch

Myanmar: Junta Atrocities Surge 5 Years since Coup

(Tokyo) – Myanmar’s military junta has committed widespread repression and abuse in every facet of life in the country since seizing power on February 1, 2021, Amnesty International, Fortify Rights, ...
The Conversation

5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart

As a pro vice-chancellor at the University of Tasmania, Nicholas Farrelly engages with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders on educational, cultural and political issues, including at the ...
Chatham House

Myanmar ‘election’ shows the military regime is here to stay. How should the world respond?

Image — A ballot paper is read out by a member of Myanmar's Union Election Commission at a polling station in downtown Yangon on 28 December 2025. Photo by Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images. Five ...
Reuters

Iran’s shadow fleet is fueling the Myanmar junta’s air war

On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...
The Guardian

‘This is a fake election’: Polls close in Myanmar but voters have little doubt junta proxy will prevail

After arresting political opponents, banning the most popular party and using violence to crush dissent, the military’s proxy is on course to win by a landslide The polls have closed in Myanmar, but ...
The Guardian

Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army’s grip on power Voting in Myanmar has ended with the military-backed party expected to win a landslide victory ...