Despite global condemnation of the junta’s recent escalation of airstrikes on civilian targets, India is happy to work ever more closely with Myanmar.

Tour of bombed scam sites highlights abrupt junta crackdown on operations once tolerated along the Thai-Myanmar border.

With the public silenced and real opposition banned, the junta’s election is designed to cement military rule, not reflect the will of the people ...

Beijing tightens coordination with military regime after the US targets Chinese-led syndicates with a Scam Center Strike Force.

In Shan State’s Nawnghkio, campaigning is being conducted amid checkpoints and rubble after a year of brutal fighting.

Regime spokesman Zaw Min Tun rejected the idea that the vote aims to entrench military rule, while also hinting at a leadership role for junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.

The attack, condemned as a war crime by the Arakan Army, comes as the regime steps up pre-election assaults on areas outside ...

Our editors continue their discussion of likely post-poll scenarios: will political prisoners be freed? Will junta boss Min Aung Hlaing want to stay on a president?

The newly formed body’s chair, Home Affairs Minister Tun Tun Naung, insists his regime is a victim, not a perpetrator, and is doing all it can to thwart online scammers.

The unveiling of the high-level, 16-member panel comes as the Myanmar regime faces global pressure over scam hubs run by junta-aligned militias and Border Guard units.

The military’s proxy USDP is campaigning vigorously on Facebook—the very platform the junta has blocked. But spokespeople have come up with ingenious excuses.

Also this week, the regime formed an anti-scam panel to mask its complicity, committed a major crime against humanity weeks before election, and vowed to crush ethnic resistance.