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Zaw Win Shein has prospered under military rule, democracy, and back again – now ranking as one of the junta's richest and most favored business sons.
Resistance video shows fragments of jet and dead pilot at crash site.
Behind the talk of 'paukphaw' ties, the relationship between Beijing and the junta is cynical and transactional, sidelining the wishes of the people of Myanmar.
An explosion and fire hit a Singapore-flagged container ship off the southern Indian coast on June 9. Four crew members including a Myanmar national are missing, while 18 have been rescued.
A Colombian presidential candidate was in grave condition after being shot twice in the head at a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a 39-year-old senator, was attacked while addressing supporters in a park on Saturday. Police arrested a 15-year-old suspect at the scene, the attorney general’s office said.
A junta fighter jet was shot down by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) resistance group at noon on Tuesday while bombing near the junta's Kan Dauk police station in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, which has been under attack by resistance forces. The aircraft crashed onto a village monastery and a pilot's helmet and skull were […]
Residents flee as junta troops, ethnic group engage in fierce clashes less than 10 km away
This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if anything can counter the junta's backing from Russia and China.
Min Aung Hlaing expressed gratitude for Beijing's support for his beleaguered junta and vowed to implement China's infrastructure plans in Myanmar.
The regime's Union Election Commission says it will identify where voting can be held closer to the election, which is scheduled for December or January.
Arakan Army-led forces close in on Nat Yay Kan Mountain air defense base on Ann-Padan road.
Six-year-old girl's name and photo published in junta newspapers over alleged involvement in killing of a retired military officer in Yangon.
Protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest of dozens in Los Angeles have been raging for three days, resulting in clashes, tear gas and arrests. President Donald Trump called the protesters "troublemakers and insurrectionists" and dispatched the National Guard to quell the unrest.
Driven by Chinese pressure, scam operations have relocated from northern border towns to eastern and southern Shan State and further inland, transforming local economies.
Clashes erupt as Trump bypasses California's governor to deploy National Guard, fueling anger over immigration raids and fears of authoritarian overreach.
Also this week, the regime installed a new chief banker and extended its bogus humanitarian ceasefire. 
The global labor watchdog in Switzerland says it will target the regime over labor rights breaches and its forced conscription. 
Despite growing discontent within the ranks, Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing may survive—by stepping sideways rather than down.
Regime backers are being rounded up for daring to question the leadership of junta boss Min Aung Hlaing.
Trump vowed to cancel Musk's contracts and subsidies after the billionaire denounced the US president's signature spending bill as a deficit-driving "abomination."
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