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The regime has held training sessions across the country, suggesting it plans to stage voting in cities surrounded by resistance-held territory.
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Chin National Army's seizure of CNDF base sparks urgent calls for peace talks, as infighting over territory threatens to undermine united front against junta.
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Beijing's sophisticated repression network is expanding rapidly worldwide, threatening sovereignty, human rights, and democracy.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/08/2025
Monday, July 7, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/07/2025
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Citizens affected by war and junta misrule in many parts of the country say neither peace nor democracy will be made possible by a sham election.
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Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta says his country's accession to the regional bloc is well under way, and pariah Myanmar's objections are "irrelevant."
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Ethnic Ta'ang National Liberation Army said regime is violating quake truce with deadly airstrikes on civilians.
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Rice prices have soared in blockaded Kyaukphyu and Sittwe while the regime stockpiles food for its own troops as lets trapped residents fend for themselves.
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Arsenic contamination thought to be from Myanmar mines prompts calls for urgent regional action and warnings of risks to local communities.
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The NUG dismissed the junta's invitation to armed groups to work with it ahead of the regime's planned election as 'a strategy filled with deception'.
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Saturday, July 5, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/05/2025
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The Irrawaddy has compiled details of the 13 confirmed junta aircraft crashes since the 2021 coup.
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Also this week, the regime rejected grim economic forecast, launched hard currency crackdown, and torpedoed Timor-Leste.
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Friday, July 4, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/04/2025
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From bamboo antennas to black-market satellites, people across Myanmar are finding creative ways to stay connected amid war and repression.
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Chinese meddling and internecine squabbles threaten the existence of the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee, an alliance of Shan State's armed groups.
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Compliant parties that have registered for the planned elections worry about the safety of their candidates, who are bound to be unpopular, and have called for a law to safeguard them.
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Resistance fighters open up the road for more conquests further north as they capture two key junta positions on National Highway 5.
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The 37th Regional Border Committee meeting in Chiang Mai from July 2-4 discussed river contamination, scam center crackdowns and other issues.
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This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if a peace process and relaxation of military rule follow a junta election, like after 2010 under Thein Sein.
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