Private Chinese security companies are increasingly blurring the line between protecting Beijings investments and outright interference in conflicts abroad, warns Rishan Sen.

Also this week, the junta imposed harsh penalties to protect its bogus poll, overlooked education in new cabinet, and text-spammed the resistance.

From Gen. Aung San to U Ko Ni, Myanmars long history of assassinations highlights the moral dilemmas and lasting impact of political violence.

The imposition of martial law suggests the regime will struggle to hold elections in those townships unless it takes control of them ahead of the polls.

After ending the state of emergency, Min Aung Hlaing gave his regime a new name as he positions himself to claim the presidency in Decembers military-run vote.

An American author imagines giving the junta boss a piece of his mind in this bold cocktail of the textual and the visual.

Beijings campaign of coercion and fragmentation aims to sabotage Myanmars revolution and help preserve junta rule as the guarantor of Chinas regional interests.

Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews says lifting sanctions on junta allies undermines efforts to curb arms flow and emboldens a regime that has killed thousands of civilians.

Ferrari & Associates helped Myanmar junta-linked entities and individuals get taken off Americas sanctions list, highlighting long-standing ties between U.S. law firms and junta-linked clients.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army says the regime has breached the terms of the April truce agreed in China.

New electoral law carries harsh punishments for anyone seeking to interfere in the regimes stage-managed December poll.

After Wednesdays tsunami warning for the Pacific, we ask: what is a tsunami, and how can it affect coastal communities?

This weeks Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if the anti-regime groups can adapt to their weaknesses like the regime appears to be doing.

Daw Myo Myo Aye, founder of the Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar, was arrested last week and has not been heard from since.

Human Rights Watch accuses the victorious ethnic army of imposing policies of oppression on Rohingya people, including arson, pillage, and forced labor.

Pakistan is too remote geographically, economically, and ideologically from ASEAN to justify its urgent bid for closer integration, argues Vaishali Basu Sharma

Trumps movesincluding talks on minerals and the lifting of sanctions against junta croniesfuel fears that Washington is abandoning Myanmars opposition.

Having eliminated 2020 landslide winner the NLD, the junta is doubling down to lock in military rule with Decembers poll.

The regimes limited gains this month cannot halt a revolution powered by the peoples rejection of military dictatorship, says Karenni resistance chief Maui (Marwi).

The regime says the shelved steel mill project in southern Shan State that it is reviving with Russian help will finally be up and running in November 2026.