The regime’s transport minister Mya Tun Oo visited Beijing this week to discuss providing southern China with access to the Indian Ocean.
Regime boss Min Aung Hlaing has forced through his third reorganization of his State Administrative Council this year.
The Chinland Defense Force says it is fighting regime advances into its Sagaing Region territory.
Control of Kachin’s Shwegu Township would allow PDF groups in Sagaing to conduct joint operations with the Kachin Independence Army, while cutting junta supply lines.
Heavy casualties and a series of defeats in the three-month battle near KIA headquarters have exposed the regime’s military weakness.
Three men were beheaded by junta troops in a village in Sagaing Region’s Pale Township. One was also disemboweled.
Regime also risks losing control of its transport artery between Yangon and Naypyitaw.
Junta’s new energy minister discusses up and downstream investment with Russian association chief.
UNODC teams up with China and Mekong countries to tackle ‘mushrooming’ of international crime in Myanmar and its neighbors.
Ten Sagaing Region residents have been given death sentences since martial law was imposed on 14 townships in February.
Political prisoners get three to six more years behind bars for protesting torture.
The successful raid was part of the ongoing Operation Moe Lone Hmine conducted against junta forces in the strategically important area by the PDF, aided by the TNLA.
The world body’s rights office also repeated its recommendation that the UN Security Council refer the junta’s atrocities to the International Criminal Court.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Mandalay, Magwe, Sagaing and Bago regions and Mon and Shan states.
The purging of confidants Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun and Lt-Gen Soe Htut is a humiliation for Min Aung Hlaing and will force him to rely on generals less beholden to him.
Regime deputy minister calls for tighter border controls on sales of drones at security forum in China.
Regime forces occupy Let Yet Kone village, where they massacred 13 people at a school last year.
New income tax on migrant workers sparks backlash in Thailand, where many earn just US$ 8.25 per day.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army reported that junta jet fighters bombed two TNLA targets in Muse Township on Monday night.
Min Hein Khant had been experiencing heart problems since his 2021 arrest but was denied adequate medical care in prison.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was on hand to greet travelers from Shanghai as Thailand pulls out all the stops to get its all-important tourism sector back on track.
Junta forces sustained casualties as the KIA and a PDF group attacked the office and a police station in Kachin State’s Hpakant, local media reported.
General is the ninth junta minister to visit key arms supplier this month in flurry of high-profile visits.
Bangladesh’s new ambassador in Yangon, Dr Monwar Hossain, has held numerous meetings to boost ties with the regime.
Troops based at Letpadaung in Sagaing have embarked on a campaign of massacres, rape and arson that has left thousands of residents fearing for their survival.
Nyunt Aung, who was also fired for graft under the previous military regime, becomes the latest victim of a corruption investigation triggered by soaring inflation.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Kachin, Mon and Karen states and Sagaing, Magwe and Mandalay regions.
The public’s expectations are high and its patience is low after the most popular party in the recent election was denied a place in Srettha Thavisin’s government.
Troops surrounded and murdered 24 resistance fighters and two civilian administrators in Myaung Township.
Regime forces have been breaking into Kamma houses and shops since residents fled junta airstrikes.
The National Unity Government says other countries should do more to defeat the regime as leaders meet for the UN General Assembly.
Also this week, the junta's media mouthpiece offered mental health advice to staff propagandizing for a war on civilians.
The civilian National Unity Government says resistance groups are inflicting heavy blows on junta forces in Sagaing, Magwe and Mandalay regions and northern Shan State.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army has reported heavy fighting with regime forces in northern Shan State and neighboring Mandalay Region.
The regime is scrambling to fill the gap left by troops deployed to the front line in ethnic states.
