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Military-ruled Myanmar plans to have an election if there is peace and stability in the country but may not be able to hold it nationwide, its top general said, as the junta battles to contain a rebellion on multiple fronts.
Myanmar’s dictator Senior General Min Aung Hlaing showcased a major infrastructure project on June 8, opening the Thanlyin Bridge 3 across the Bago River, linking the commercial capital Yangon with the Thilawa Special Economic Zone.
BANGKOK -- The death from old age on June 1 of Tin Oo, Myanmar's most respected soldier and politician, was so widely mourned that even Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was reported to have sent a wreath. The incumbent military regime chief visited his former commander in December 2021 with an offer of superior military hospital care that was firmly declined.
Myanmar’s freefall into failed state status is starkly evident across the multiple battle zones of the countryside but arguably the most alarming decline is being felt in the fast-collapsing economy.
A new art exhibition in Bangkok explores the horrific experience of civilians caught up in the unrelenting violence of air strikes in Myanmar.
After six disastrous months of serial defeat, Myanmar’s military has finally swung back onto the offensive with a high-stakes campaign already teetering precariously between success and further failure.
TOKYO -- Revelers in Myanmar celebrate the traditional New Year in mid-April by splashing water on each other to cool off and cleanse themselves of the sins of the old year. But the festive mood seemed subdued this year, overshadowed by the enforcement of a conscription law by the military regime under the leadership of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.
BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority claimed Monday to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand, as soldiers and civil servants loyal to the military government appeared to be preparing to abandon their positions.
Even before the end of a dry season that has dramatically upended the military balance in Myanmar, the broad and profoundly sobering contours of conflict over the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 are already taking shape.