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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Trump’s moves—including talks on minerals and the lifting of sanctions against junta cronies—fuel fears that Washington is abandoning Myanmar’s opposition.

Thailand said Cambodia broke a ceasefire agreed between the countries’ prime ministers at Malaysia-brokered talks on Monday.

Cambodia demands immediate ceasefire at UN as jets, tanks, and rockets escalate long-running dispute.

Justice For Myanmar says Chinese arms manufacturer Norinco should face international sanctions for arming the junta.

The junta would be nothing without Chinese aid on every front, and yet it remains suspicious of Beijing and unable or unwilling to deliver what it wants.

With deadly clashes entering a fifth day, leaders of both countries headed for peace talks in Malaysia amid pressure from the US and China, and rising nationalist anger.

Following its recapture of two key towns, analysts say Myanmar’s junta may target Mogoke and key trade routes in northern Shan next.

Prison sources say around 200 jailed troops have been released on condition they serve in the armed forces for the rest of their sentences.

Launch of political and diplomatic offensives is urgent if the National Unity Government and ethnic armed allies are to retain momentum of Operation 1027.

The regime’s newspapers were filled with tirades against José Ramos-Horta after he urged junta troops to defect, and its backers staged a rally denouncing him in Yangon.

Rukchanok Srinork of the Move Forward Party was found guilty of lese majeste and breaching the Computer Crimes Act for retweeting two messages.

In Part 2 of an interview, Daw Zin Mar Aung says she is optimistic all anti-regime stakeholders have learned from the past and understand the need for unity.

Four regions targeted as the junta intensifies its aerial campaign in the face of an expanding resistance offensive.

The alliance says its three members will fight the regime until a federal democracy is established.

Dawei Watch said two of its employees were arrested from their homes in the Tanintharyi capital at around midnight on Dec. 11.

The Indaw People's Defense Force says Maw Luu town in Indaw Township has fallen after about six hours of fighting.

Regime spokesman Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun continues to concoct lies to cover up humiliating defeats as the resistance offensive expands.     

The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan State and Sagaing, Magwe and Tanintharyi regions.

Food and fuel shortages are compounded by lack of internet access and intermittent telecom signals, as well as junta troops firing on farmers trying to harvest their rice.

Chinese-brokered peace talks have begun but the Brotherhood Alliance is still attacking Myanmar’s regime across northern Shan and Rakhine states.

State Dept. contractor DSG’s inclusion of ethnic armies and PDFs in an annex to a US global terrorism report has been slammed for handing the junta a propaganda win.

The Irrawaddy’s guide to the dozens of ethnic armies and resistance groups fighting the junta as part of Operation 1027 and Operation 1111.

The Myanmar Economic Monitor says rising armed conflict since October and the regime’s economic mismanagement have restricted growth.h

The UNODC attributed the trend to the Taliban’s crackdown on production in Afghanistan, coupled with the gutting of Myanmar farmers’ normal revenue by war.