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Penny Wong told an ASEAN summit that the regime's approach is "unsustainable".
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Also this week, a new junta spokesman proved an eager pupil, and Min Aung Hlaing put his predecessors under watch while adding yet another job title to his portfolio.
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/27/2024
Friday, July 26, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/26/2024
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Regime troops remain scattered through civilian areas of the northern Shan State capital.
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The relocation order came after the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army said it seized the northern Shan State capital.
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A resistance group has launched a beverage brand to fund its war against Myanmar's military.
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Myanmar-focused diplomats still regard the military as the key to the country's future, leaving them woefully unprepared for the reality of a junta-free future.
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The bridge linking Thandwe and Gwa townships is one of four in the area that junta forces have destroyed after losing positions to the Arakan Army.
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/25/2024
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The 'historic victory' marks the first time anti-regime resistance forces have seized one of the military's 13 regional command HQs. Clashes are ongoing in Lashio.
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The 71-year-old resigned from his 105 Yoma-linked firms while he remains under junta interrogation over allegations that his bank added to Myanmar's inflation woes.
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Padoh Naw Zipporah Sein, a former Karen National Union vice-chairwoman, has died of cancer aged 69 after a life of striving to secure Karen rights.
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Ex-dictator Than Shwe and former President Thein Sein are among those being monitored by current junta boss Min Aung Hlaing's security forces in Naypyitaw, sources said.
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Residents warmly welcomed resistance forces into the town in northern Mandalay Region. It is the third town captured since the resumption of Operation 1027 last month.
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The UN said last month five Thai banks helped the junta import some $130 million in arms and military supplies from Thai-registered suppliers in the year to March 2024.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 07/24/2024
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An estimated 150,000 people have fled to Mandalay from the region's northern townships and adjacent Shan State since Operation 1027 resumed in late June. Rents have doubled in one month.
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They discussed border stability and fighting the drug and arms trades, as well as online scam operations, junta media reported.
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Regime boss has assumed duties of acting president that are required to rubberstamp another extension of emergency rule.
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Junta troops in Jeiktaw Ward on the beach's southern tip are stranded as the AA is closing in on a naval base that supplies them.
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This week's Irrawaddy Editorial Talk discussion examines how the junta's expected extension of emergency rule is likely to be received in Beijing.
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