Also this week, ex-Home Affairs minister Soe Htut became latest general in the firing line over surging prices.
A Chin State rights group says the regime is targeting buildings where civilians shelter.
National Unity Government says 44 officials at the junta-controlled bank are complicit in financing war crimes.
The Mandalay regional chief and two other commanders are reportedly being interrogated in Naypyitaw for leaking.
Mothers and children of Let Yet Kone recount horrors of the day when 13 people including seven children were slaughtered by junta gunships and troops.
Foreign ministers of both pariah states praise each other in Moscow as North Korea’s dictator pays a visit.
In his new book, former Yangon CIA station chief Barry Broman is either ignorant of, or covering up, the Myanmar military’s historic involvement in the drug trade.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Sagaing, Magwe, Mandalay and Bago regions and Mon and Kachin states.
Consumer boycott enters new phase as generals launch armed counter-offensive at shops and pubs in Yangon.
Three men were found dead in Myingyan Township with villagers saying it was retaliation for a regime administrator's assassination.
Thein Win Zaw, owner of conglomerate SBP spanning the oil, mining, gems, telecoms and logging sectors, is latest to be interrogated by military intelligence.
Battalion has been on killing and looting spree in Myaing Township since early August.
Chinese, Indian tourists will be the first to benefit from the pilot project, but tour operators say conflict is a deterrent.
Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia refused to attend the regime's gathering of air force chiefs in Naypyitaw.
The National League for Democracy says it holds the junta solely responsible for the jailed leader’s declining health.
Than Swe, who will also visit Belarus, is the fifth junta minister to visit Russia, a key ally and arms supplier of the junta, in a week.
The arrest of ‘kickback king’ Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun, once seen as a possible successor to Min Aung Hlaing, comes as the regime struggles to control soaring prices.
Min Aung Hlaing has tried to recruit allies as his overstretched forces face increasing attacks near the Chinese border.
Ethnic members of regime council promote ‘peace and development’ but skip conflict zones in states they no longer control.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army is increasingly active along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.
Move marks resumption of a relationship that in 2008 sparked fears of nuclear collaboration.
Prison staff agree to return medicine, food, clothes and other possessions seized from political prisoners after hunger strike expanded.
Thailand’s opposition demands investigation after large force of junta troops reportedly crossed border and camped near Thai village.
The regime says it will record the population in Monywa Township, despite repeated attacks on regime targets across Sagaing Region.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Sagaing, Tanintharyi and Bago regions. A regime-appointed ward administrator was among those killed in the clashes.
Those who refuse to remit at least 25% of their earnings at regime exchange rate will be barred from working overseas for three years.
PDF (Mandalay) said it engaged in nine clashes and conducted eight drone strikes against regime forces in the first phase of Operation Kanaung.
Junta minister also said currency conversion and tourism agreements are also in the works between the two pariah states.
Retired teacher disappears after a pro-junta Telegram channel called for his arrest and published his home address and Facebook profile photo.
Pale and Yinmabin townships in the resistance stronghold have been targeted by air raids multiple times over the past three days, local residents said.
Pro-democracy activist Ko Wai Moe Naing joins protest after authorities seize food, medicine and possessions of political detainees at Sagaing’s Monywa prison.
The trips by UEC chief Thein Soe and member Than Tun to Russia and China respectively follow comments from the junta chief indicating he seeks to hold a poll in 2025.
Junta says it is ‘too busy building democracy’ after ASEAN leaders prevent it from leading the bloc in 2026.
Kachin Independence Army troops and resistance allies were killed in a predawn regime attack.
The Karen National Union says indiscriminate airstrikes must stop as ASEAN representatives gather in Naypyitaw for an air force summit.
