From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.

The junta’s polls, which will be held in three phases starting on December 28, are intended to strengthen military rule by ...

Myanmar’s junta is organising elections for late 2025 or early 2026, but conflict, repression and irregularities undermine any chance of credibility. The Union Election Commission lacks transparency, ...

The massive 2025 Myanmar earthquake revealed that strike slip faults can behave in surprising ways. Using satellite data, Caltech researchers found the Sagaing Fault ruptured more dramatically than ...

A UCLA-led team of scientists has uncovered how the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 produced one of the longest and fastest-moving ruptures ever recorded on land ...

We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch in the context of the upcoming summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the East Asia Summit, and associated ASEAN partner summits, ...

(New York) – Governments attending upcoming regional summits in Malaysia should reject the Myanmar military junta’s plans to hold “elections” in December 2025, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to ...

Among Myanmar’s diverse demographic groups, the young generation has been one of the most adversely affected cohorts of the 2021 military coup. Heightened insecurity, the crippled economy, shrinking ...

Myanmar will tour Bhutan for an exciting five-match T20I series, set to begin on December 23, 2025. The tour will conclude ...