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After the generals' capital was left in ruins by the March 28 earthquake, the junta is summoning the crony companies that built Naypyitaw.
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It was the first meeting between the two presidents since their infamous Oval Office bust-up.
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This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if Naypyitaw will be abandoned.
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Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing paused church bombings to praise late Pope, quake-hit students and electricity users faced more trauma, Naypyitaw to downsize, and ASEAN ceasefire plea shot down.
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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/26/2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/25/2025
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The National Unity Government's deputy foreign minister urges the global community to focus not only on post-quake relief, but on ending the dictatorship that drives Myanmar's crisis.
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Save the Children says more than 42,000 displaced people lack proper protection from the monsoon, which is expected to begin next month.
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Quake survivors face financial burden as regime's "free" demolition promises go unfulfilled, forcing many to live amid partially collapsed buildings and uncleared rubble.
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Once a peaceful enclave where southern Shan State meets Mandalay, the Ywangan area is seeing a growing campaign of killings and destruction by the regime.
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Naypyitaw's brief history charts Myanmar's political evolution through dictatorship, reform, and renewed repression, raising the question: should it remain the capital?
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Hundreds of regime troops reinforced by allied militias are advancing from two sides on Kachin rebels besieging the mountainous jade mining hub of Hpakant.
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Poisonous heavy metals flowing from Chinese-owned gold mines in Shan State pose a deadly threat to residents in northern Thailand – and a headache for their government.
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The regime carried out hundreds of attacks on AA-held areas during its truce, killing civilians and bombing towns with jets, drones, and artillery, the armed group said.
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Six police officers have been confirmed dead following an aircraft crash during a training mission in Hua Hin District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, on Friday morning, the Royal Thai Police said.
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The 'fraud suspects' were arrested since March 24 in raids carried out by Myanmar, China's Ministry of Public Security said.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/24/2025
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Justice for Myanmar says inviting the regime to regional security conferences makes a mockery of the bloc's calls for peace.
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Ensuring that the junta regained the northern Shan capital without firing a shot, China's interference in Myanmar has never been so public or so brazen.
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Built by regime cronies just two decades ago as a monument to military rule, the Parliament complex failed to withstand March 28 earthquake.
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Taking time out from bombing houses of worship across the country, Min Aung Hlaing sent a message of condolence to the Vatican noting the late pope's "contribution to world peace."
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