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Min Aung Hlaing signed cooperation pacts with Russia's Rosatom and Roscosmos as his regime seeks to deepen Moscow's technical aid and political backing.
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Bertil Lintner reviews new books about U Thant, the Burmese schoolmaster who helmed the UN during its heyday, and about Vladimir Putin's desperate attempts to find support in the East.
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Women and children among the dead; UN called on to halt international flow of arms and jet fuel to regime.
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Anti-regime Karen National Union decries support for 'sham vote'.
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Family-run Ming syndicate from Myanmar's northern Shan State convicted of fraud, killings and running telecom scam parks that earned over $1.4 billion.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 09/30/2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 09/29/2025
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Regime forces target Kyaukme after recapturing neighboring Nawnghkio from Ta'ang National Liberation Army in July.
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After several years of unprecedented battlefield success, the anti-regime movement is now under pressure as the junta leverages manpower, airpower and Chinese support.
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The United League of Arakan, political wing of the Arakan Army, said corrupt Bangladesh Border Guard members aid ARSA and RSO, threatening border security and relations.
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 09/27/2025
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More displaced people are pouring into Mandalay all the time, but most are too exhausted from the fighting to take an interest in the planned polls.
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Also this week, the regime turned to Moscow and Delhi for election support, mustered an army of candidates, and wooed nuclear allies at World Atomic Week.
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 09/26/2025
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The abrupt, unexplained rule change strips Passport for Job holders of third-country travel rights, sparking alarm among Myanmar migrants in Thailand.
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Min Aung Hlaing holds talks with Putin amid growing concerns that regime will tap fledgling nuclear program for military use.
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The US Treasury blacklisted a Yangon firm and its employees, plus a North Korean operative for brokering sales of bombs, guidance equipment and other items to the junta.
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Displaced villagers are in dire need of support, with many subsisting in makeshift tents on farms and in forests as the junta pushes south from Myawaddy to recapture lost ground.
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Junta troops and allied militias are trying to recapture the resource-rich former Special Region 1 ahead of the planned election, but so far to no avail.
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A radioactive blessing from the rat king
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Myanmar's plans to build a nuclear power plant were given a fresh fillip by junta boss Min Aung Hlaing's recent Russia visit. We trace the country's nuclear ambitions back to early 2000.
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In the name of sustainable development, China cements its hegemony over water resources, causing economic dependency and environmental destruction downstream, warns Chandu Doddi.
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The Thai Senate said heavy-metal contamination in Chiang Rai's Kok River, traced to Shan State mines, was a cross-border crisis with grave health and economic risks.
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