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Oil worth US$150 million from Magwe onshore fields has gone straight to the junta to fuel airstrikes on civilians and other crimes against humanity, an investigation finds.
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Seven US-funded clinics, servicing around 80,000 refugees from Myanmar, have closed since the new US administration froze funding.
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No elections can be held under a state of emergency, meaning the regime's vaunted polls will now have to wait until at least the second half of 2025.
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Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.
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The UN's IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.
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Friday, January 31, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 01/31/2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 01/30/2025
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Myanmar's armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in February.
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The regime denies that it intends to recruit women for military service but officials continue to locate unmarried females aged 18 to 27.
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The junta is waging a virtual war against the resistance and ordinary citizens. The world can help by supporting Myanmar people in their attempts to stay connected.
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Coming home from a shopping trip, the young man was beaten, forced into a car, and sold into conscription for 5 million kyats. Only at the last minute did he give his captors the slip.
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Police chiefs in three districts of Thailand's Tak province were removed for failing to combat scam-related activity.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 01/29/2025
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Hopes for survival of one of country's last remaining freshwater dolphins were shattered with the discovery of its body in Prachinburi River
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The regime says it has no plans to conscript women for military service but it is making lists of eligible women in Yangon Region.
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Medical services withdrawn from tens of thousands of Myanmar refugees as border camps shut hospitals.
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Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents' daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is on the way.
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In his New Year's address, Peng Daxun dropped his previous anti-junta rhetoric and focused on working with China to boost stability and development in the Kokang region.
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The Myanmar junta insists online scam operators are foreigners thriving on cross-border infrastructure, and neighboring countries must do their part to suppress them.
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A visiting Chinese public security minister said scam-center gangs employ more than 100,000 callers, with those in Myanmar's Myawaddy area a particular concern.
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The unconditional release and support of all political prisoners is only the first step toward a free and democratic Myanmar, says prominent activist Bo Kyi.
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This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if the ASEAN chair, Malaysia, can shake up the international approach to Myanmar's many crises.
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