Lt-General Moe Myint Tun, who oversees economic affairs as the sixth-most powerful regime official, is at risk after his right-hand man was arrested last week.
Foreign rescuers flew in to help after the North African country's strongest-ever quake killed at least 2,122 people and injured more than 2,400, wiping out villages.
Junta troops add land-mine traps to their repertoire of arson attacks, indiscriminate shelling and shooting of civilians in Sagaing Region.
The Irrawaddy spoke to Australian economist Sean Turnell, an ex-aide to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who was jailed in 2021-22, on the economic damage wrought by military rule.
Political prisoners in Sagaing's Monywa Prison are protesting against the seizure of their possessions during a raid on Friday.
Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing promoted himself as a humane nature-lover while overseeing a crackdown that has killed 4,000 civilians.
Resistance groups in Wetlet Township destroyed the Mandalay-Myitkyina train line in five places.
The energy crisis will worsen as long as the junta is in control, expert adds.
The Mandalay native passed away in the US on Sept. 1, leaving important legacies as both a modernist painter and a leading voice in the 8888 anti-dictatorship movement.
Victims were reportedly stabbed and shot after regime forces raided their camp in Monywa Township.
The Karen National Union says about 50 troops at the Papun Township base fled during the attack.
Regime forces ambushed in a double attack by People’s Defense Forces in Tanintharyi Region.
So far, the heads of the Philippine, Malaysian and Indonesian air forces have said they will not attend the junta-hosted ASEAN Air Chiefs Conference next week.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Sagaing, Magwe, Mandalay and Tanintharyi regions and Chin, Shan, Mon and Karen states.
Reporters Without Borders made the call after a junta court jailed photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike for 20 years with hard labor for covering the fallout of Cyclone Mocha.
It said the Myanmar military has lost 30,000 troops in nearly 10,000 clashes with resistance forces since the ‘people’s war’ was declared in September 2021.
Indian ambassador to Myanmar Vinay Kumar has proposed scholarships with the regime's new Naypyitaw State Academy.
After five weeks, over 15,000 civilians are still displaced in one township in Sagaing due to ferocious junta raids.
President Jose Ramos-Horta says the regime controls about 30 percent of Myanmar and ASEAN should be doing more to end military rule.
Worry grows for Myanmar’s 78-year-old detained civilian leader amid reports she has stopped eating.
The NUG needs to remedy its lukewarm perception among both international and domestic audiences should it want to continue to be a part of the new Myanmar.
Content-sharing deal with Sputnik announced; Myanmar journalist sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Attack comes just three days after deadly strike in Karen State as resistance drone unit warns regime officials to quit.
Kantbalu Township is suffering from repeated regime attacks, leaving thousands hungry in the forests, charities report.
Release of union leaders and workers follows a growing exodus of global brands from Myanmar.
Justice For Myanmar targets nine tycoons who do business in Singapore and support the junta’s atrocities.
Village raids in Shwebo Township have destroyed numerous homes, leaving civilians hungry, according to volunteers.
Junta troops are shelling surrounding settlements in Sagaing Region after occupying Pyin Htaung Lay village, says local resistance group.
Min Aung Hlaing says voting will take place after a census is taken in October 2024.
Three days of shelling and airstrikes by fighter jets have also forced 3,700 civilians to flee their homes, says the KNU.
The NUG’s promise of citizenship and full rights for the Rohingya has won it no meaningful help internationally, while being used by the junta to rally domestic support.
In a 19-point statement, they urged all parties—and ‘the Myanmar Armed Forces in particular’—to stop targeted attacks on civilians, houses and public facilities.
The junta confirmed the move; diplomats said ASEAN leaders had agreed to the switch due the lack of progress on the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus.
New curb on delivery of vital aid packages to prisons comes amid spike in reports of torture.
Archaeologists blame construction that has blocked drainage channels in UNESCO-listed ancient city.
