BATTLE LINES are changing quickly in Myanmar. Resistance forces—comprising hundreds of factions, many with competing aims—have won a series of victories over the army, which controls the government.

Myanmar’s military on Thursday nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned election, with the junta chief remaining in charge of the war-torn country in his ...

Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...

Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership. Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the brink of ...

IT WILL TAKE some days for the full toll of the powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28th to become clear. The epicentre lay just outside Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, which has ...

A photo of National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik shaking hands with an individual seated to his left on the Tiananmen Rostrum during a military parade in Beijing on the 3rd of last month spread ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end up in China. By Hannah Beech In minute quantities, the minerals known as ...