The Irrawaddy

Bangkok urges dialogue and restraint as ASEAN weighs its response to Myanmars junta-run vote.

This week our editors discuss the glaring contrast between Theravada monks popular Walk for Peace across the U.S. and the silent, co-opted clergy in junta-ruled Myanmar.

Reuters and Amnesty probes reveal the sanctions-busting fuel supply behind a bombing campaign that killed more than 2,000 people last year.

A coordinated resistance offensive has been bogged down around the transport node of Penwegon since the middle of January amid relentless artillery fire from the junta.

Lt Gen Tun Tun Naung has been reassigned to military duties in an ongoing shakeup seen as shoring up loyalty in the ranks before transition to a nominally civilian government.

From tour guide to tycoon, Aung Myo Min Dins rise tracks Myanmars early 2000s tourism boomand the military ties, land seizures and controversies that followed.

Nationalist activists and monks rally as Myanmar faces genocide allegations in The Hague over its 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.

Prominent chiefs of opposition parties crushed as military-backed USDP claims landslide victory.

Zaw Win Myint and Myo Moe Aung have been dispatched as envoys to Russia and China as punishment for military popularity and scam ties, respectively, say analysts

Beijing is delighted with the regime-rigged poll, its Foreign Ministry says, and claims voters turned out in droves.

From threats to hands-on harassment by local apparatchiks, tales of coercion abound in Sundays third and final phase of the regime-rigged polls.

Military-proxy party claims 80 percent of constituencies overall amid complaints of irregularities and international condemnation.

Fighting across nearly all regions covered by Phase 3 vote exposed the regimes so-called election as an exercise to cement military rule rather than win public legitimacy.

Voting marred nationwide as residents stayed away, polling stations fell silent and fighting disrupted the poll, which the junta nonetheless branded a success.

Yangons Tamwe constituency returned resounding victory for the National League for Democracy politician in 2015 and 2020, but no more than 10 percent of voters turned out this time.

Across Myanmars remaining townships, few voters went to the polls today, even though the regime went all out to publicize the election. Follow the days stories here.

Even before toppling Myanmars democratically elected government, Min Aung Hlaing was persona non grata in many countries. Now the election is supposed to grant him legitimacy.

Myanmar wraps up its stage-managed election today, a move designed to cement military rule five years after the coup.

Foreign intervention occasionally ends other tyrannies, but Myanmars generals remain untouched.

Testimony cited in The Hague shows how influential monks abandoned compassion to serve power and impunity, offering religious cover for the militarys violence.

Dozens also wounded as regime air force bombs crowds gathering for ceremonies in Kachin and Magwe.

The regime has ordered two Karen armed groups to protect its battalion headquarters in Myawaddy after scam warlord Saw Chit Thu threatened defection.

Regime issues four-point warning to ultranationalist followers planning rallies during ongoing hearings at International Court of Justice.

The junta claims to have retaken much of Mandalay from the resistance, but the voting map tells a different story, with many parts of the region still beyond its reach.