China is both target and driver: domestic outrage fuels enforcement, while the crackdown helps project power along Myanmar's and Thailand's borders ...

Brotherhood Alliance partners’ months-long struggle for control of Kutkai is reaching a boiling point, according to residents and informed sources.

In foreign policy as in everything else, the new “civilian” government will only be the old junta in new clothes, observers predict.

Takeshi Ebisawa, sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, believed he was selling weapons-grade plutonium to Iran ...

Armed Conflicts in Northern Myanmar, Analysis of the Man Maw Tin Mine Situation] Since mid-to-late February 2026, tensions in northern Shan State of Myanmar have escalated again, triggering market ...

US-Myanmar relations have long been defined by acrimony. Recent developments in American energy and mineral policy provide an alternative path forward. The new minerals race compels Washington to seek ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-backed party emerged the winner of an election, final official figures showed Wednesday, as the country’s army chief signed a law authorizing a new consultative body ...

The National Unity Government was formed as a pro-democracy alternative to the junta. But, critics say, it has failed to achieve most of its goals. By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar After ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Troops with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) raise their flag after the capture of Lashio in July 2024. A year later, China pressured the MNDAA to withdraw and cede control of ...

As a pro vice-chancellor at the University of Tasmania, Nicholas Farrelly engages with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders on educational, cultural and political issues, including at the ...