China’s apparent demands for a retreat from the northern Shan State capital Lashio is an unacceptable breach of Myanmar’s sovereignty, argues analyst Wai Min Tun.

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

It pledged to strengthen international law enforcement cooperation to dismantle telecom fraud networks, particularly in Myawaddy, Myanmar. The ministry said it attaches great importance to the ...

The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...

A high school student found a way to run the classic PC game Doom from within a PDF file by leveraging the format's support for JavaScript and the Chromium browser engine.

There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing ... it's plenty fast enough to wade Knee-Deep in the Dead. It is indeed great work and an example of some ...

The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release ... The Thai government attaches great importance to combatting cross-border crimes and considers it a national ...

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...

Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...

Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide ...