With communications increasingly shut down, it seems likely the military will step up arrests and killings, in areas where it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to get information out. The ...

Zin Wine, widely regarded as a pillar of the film industry in Myanmar, rarely leaves his home these days. The long-time critic of the military junta, who was jailed twice for his activism, fled to ...

A figurehead leader, he had little real power but did endorse measures that allowed the country’s generals to extend their rule after a 2021 coup. By Sui-Lee Wee Myanmar’s figurehead president, U ...

Four years after Myanmar's 2021 military coup, the junta's long-promised general election has arrived not as a democratic renewal but as a source of anger, fear and rejection among many citizens, ...