China’s apparent demands for a retreat from the northern Shan State capital Lashio is an unacceptable breach of Myanmar’s sovereignty, argues analyst Wai Min Tun.

Fuel demand is soaring in the Myanmar border towns of Myawaddy, Payathonzu, and Tachileik after the Thai government cut off their electricity and fuel supply to cripple online scam centers there.

Electricity, internet services and fuel supply to five areas of Myanmar were to be cut off on Wednesday morning, the deputy ...

The company’s oil trading unit, PTT Oil and Retail Business, is set to comply with Bangkok’s policy of cutting off resources to border scam centers in Myanmar.

The globe must summon the moral courage to stand with Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s people in their struggle against a brutal dictatorship.

Myanmar’s junta failed in its attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader’s home – the third time the sale has flopped.

An analysis by The Irrawaddy shows a sharp rise in the number of people killed in junta airstrikes last month. The vast majority of the victims were civilians.

Press gangs prowl the streets of Mandalay and Bagan, snatching people on their way to or from work on trumped-up charges or for no reason at all.

Magwe hosts over a dozen of the junta’s ordnance factories, known by the Burmese acronym KaPaSa. KaPaSa 14, which produces ...

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

The Kachin Independence Army says the Artillery Battalion 366 headquarters have been seized in the junta’s Kachin power hub of Bhamo.

Withdrawing cross-border electricity supply could affect household consumers and legal businesses, says Interior Ministry ...