My whirlwind trip to Cox’s Bazar after quite some time was an eye-opener to some realities that were unknown to me staying ...

Myanmar completed four years of military rule. On this day in 2021 General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the National League for ...

Five years after the coup and a protracted civil war, the junta and pro-democracy rebels have failed to consolidate power ...

Research on Southeast Asia includes work on Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Indonesia. From the end of the Cold War until recently, US influence in Southeast Asia was huge. Now, with ...

The announcement comes a day before the Southeast Asian nation marks four years since the military, known as the Tatmadaw, launched a coup in February 2021. The military regime last year invited ...

With mounting pressure from Bangkok and Beijing, it is becoming more difficult for Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) chief Maj Gen Saw Chit Thu to protect the grey business empire along the Moei river in ...

As of October 2023, Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, controlled under 40% of the country, although they maintained that they controlled around two-thirds of the country’s 330 townships. In the second ...

He was shot as a teenager by soldiers from the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military. Years later, when the Rohingya faced another wave of brutal persecution, he fled by boat to Malaysia, eventually ...

For Myanmar’s people, year four under military junta rule has only brought more death, displacement and despair, as their troubled homeland is torn further apart by a seemingly intractable civil ...

When asked for details that Myanmar's Tatmadaw and ethnic armed organization Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) held peace talks and signed a ceasefire agreement in Kunming ...

A Myanmar military drone tracked a car carrying anti-junta forces as it drove through the contested village of Moe Bye. Moments after it parked near a house, the operator dropped an explosive. Myanmar ...