There are even reports that the Arakan Army now commands areas inside Bangladesh. In the ferocious civil war between ethnic rebel groups and the junta (military) in Myanmar, the Arakan Army, the ...
An opium poppy farm in Pekon Township in Shan State, Myanmar, in November.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times Supported by By Hannah Beech Reporting from Shan and Karen states in Myanmar ...
Some have suggested that Myanmar, which has been at war essentially since the junta’s 2021 coup and where the military has steadily lost ground (it controls around twenty percent of the country ...
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's parallel National Unity Government has suffered a series of setbacks in the armed campaign against the military government as other rebel groups seek dialogue with the ...
The growing territorial gains of the Arakan Army, and its seemingly undeterred momentum, have raised questions about the rebel group's ultimate goal. Since Myanmar's military staged a coup and ...
Months after announcing that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border has been entirely suspended, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has brought in fresh protocol to regulate ...
The beauty in this corner of Shan state, in north-eastern Myanmar, might seem to be a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead, the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in ...
Myanmar news: Since the time when Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government was overthrown in India’s neigbouring country Myanmar, the socio-political situation in the country has ...
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Monday (December 30, 2024) that demographic data along the Myanmar border, especially in Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur, should be mapped to help ...
LAST week, Thailand hosted two critical Asean meetings on Myanmar, a country still ensnared in crisis nearly three years after the military coup of February 2021. The meetings focused on two ...
In 2024, across Singapore and South-east Asia, conversations about world affairs seem to surface more frequently in daily life – at dinner tables, with colleagues in the office or over coffee ...
I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before ...