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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - At a meeting on Tuesday in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, ASEAN leaders reiterated their ...
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday hailed "significant" steps to engage warring sides in Myanmar, as Southeast ...
Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan urges ASEAN to support expanding ceasefire beyond the currently affected zone.
An Argentinian court issued an international arrest warrant for Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and political prisoner, ...
Two Burmese army helicopters crashed reportedly killing seven onboard. The aircraft were allegedly peppered with gunfire from ...
A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar’s military has been shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group near his ...
Southeast Asia's leaders will try again when they meet on Monday to bring Myanmar's military government into talks to end a ...
However, the country’s nascent press freedoms came under strain during the term of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy government, which came to power in 2016 as a result of the ...
As part of our 'Stories That Shaped Us' series, to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 election, The Irrawaddy revisits a personal account of the vote written in 2005.
UNHCR says two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 could be the ‘deadliest tragedy at sea’ involving Rohingya so far this year.
Southeast Asian leaders meet Monday for their first summit since Donald Trump’s tariff policies upended global economic norms ...
The Southeast Asian grouping ASEAN will hold two meetings specifically on the civil war in army-ruled Myanmar ahead of its ...