People fleeing Myanmar run across a bridge at the border village of Zokhawthar, Champhai district, in India's northeastern state of Mizoram, on Nov. 15, 2023.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar GDP to stagnate as conscription chases away workers: World Bank

Economic size remains smaller than when military ousted Suu Kyi's government

12 June 2024
Young men play in the Tanintharyi River in Tagu, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar, in March. Despite the ever-present threat of violence from an increasingly desperate military regime, daily life continues in many resistance strongholds. (All photos by Valeria Mongelli)
Tea Leaves

Life lessons from airstrikes in resistance-controlled Myanmar

In Tanintharyi, civilians learn to wait and cope with bombing campaigns

12 June 2024
 Offices and residential buildings crowd in Bangkok. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
Myanmar Crisis

Arrests spook Myanmar condo buyers shifting wealth to Thailand

Myanmar clients behind only Chinese in Thai market in Q1

11 June 2024
Chinese forces hold exercises near the Myanmar border in November 2023. (Screenshot from PLA Southern Theater Command WeChat channel)
Opinion

China will not give up on Myanmar's military

Fresh elections seen as best way out of stalemated conflict

10 June 2024
NLD co-founder Tin Oo shortly after the bloody military takeover by the State Law and Order and Restoration Council on Sept. 18, 1988. "Our lives are wrapped in leaf," he told a correspondent at the time. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)
Obituaries

Myanmar's Thura Tin Oo, an officer and a gentleman from another age

The last in a line of former military officers who tried but failed to bring change

8 June 2024
Tin Oo, a patron of Myanmar's National League for Democracy, appears at a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the party, in Yangon in September 2013.
Obituaries

Myanmar's NLD co-founder and Suu Kyi ally Tin Oo dies at 97

Key figure in democracy movement spent 10 years as political prisoner

1 June 2024
Rohingya refugees try to balance on a capsized boat in the waters off West Aceh, Indonesia, on March 21.
Editor-in-Chief’s Picks

Letter from Nikkei Asia's editor: Nowhere to go

Shin Nakayama shares his weekly reflections and recommendations

31 May 2024
Myanmar troops retreat amid fighting around the border town of Myawaddy on April 11: Resistance groups are building state structures and delivering public services in "liberated areas."  
Opinion

West must come to terms with Myanmar's fragmentation

Resistance forces need international help with providing governance for millions

30 May 2024
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The Big Story

Myanmar's Rohingya refugees signal despair and hope in overcrowded camp

Almost a million trapped by civil war amid xenophobia, donor fatigue in Bangladesh

29 May 2024
A British fighter helping train resistance forces in Chin State, Myanmar. (Photo by PDF Zoland)
Myanmar Crisis

Foreign fighters training anti-regime forces in Myanmar

Numbers too small so far to be game changing in overall battle situation

23 May 2024
Karen National Liberation Army troops in Myawaddy on April 15: Ethnic armies will not be so willing to give up hard-won battlefield achievements.
Opinion

A new Myanmar is emerging from conflict and climate change

Ethnic armies will not accept reimposition of centralized state

20 May 2024
Members of the Arakan Rebel Group are seen from a former Myanmar Border Guard Police post after a fierce battle in February.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's Rakhine state engulfed by conflict as rebels claim victory

Razing of homes and exodus of Rohingya raises fears of mass displacement

20 May 2024
Medical teams tend to patients at the secret Luke Hospital in Kayah state in eastern Myanmar. Donations and volunteers help keep the facility going. (All photos by Thierry Falise)
Life

Myanmar rebels create jungle medical network

Doctors conduct sophisticated surgical procedures in hidden hospitals, and cook in their spare time

19 May 2024
Leaders of Myanmar's parallel National Unity Government and three ethnic armed organizations held an unprecedented joint news conference on May 15 in Tokyo. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar resistance leaders present united front in Tokyo

NUG and ethnic groups demand that military withdraw entirely from politics

15 May 2024
Two Thai telecom towers face west across the Moei River near Myawaddy toward one of some 16 Chinese-funded scam centers that have sprung up just inside Myanmar in recent years.
Myanmar Crisis

Thailand, Japan signal policy shifts on engaging Myanmar's resistance

Bangkok orders telcos to cut internet to casino scam centers along border

13 May 2024
A woman sells food at a market in Yangon, Myanmar. Food prices have soared by more than 50% over the past year. (Photo by Nikkei)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's public struggles with inflation as currency tumbles

Local demand for dollars drives kyat lower as draft-age youths flee country

9 May 2024
Young people line up at the Japanese Embassy in Yangon in March. 
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar reopens foreign work applications amid draft turmoil

Halt lifted after less than a week following confusion over impact

7 May 2024
A supporter of India's main opposition Congress party holds up a banner during a rally in Manipur state's Thoubal district on Jan. 14.
India elections

India's violence-wracked Manipur holds 'closed-door' election

Fears of more bloodshed force candidates to campaign on the sly in remote region

6 May 2024
Myanmar's military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, attends an international conference in Moscow in June 2021. 
Comment

Myanmar ruler Min Aung Hlaing yearns for public acceptance

Beleaguered military chief seems torn between ambition and self-preservation

5 May 2024
People line up to cross into Mae Sot, Thailand from Myanmar on April 12: Immigrants should be seen as human capital. 
Opinion

Thai policy toward Myanmar must move forward

Bilateral relationship too enmeshed now in protocol and bureaucracy

3 May 2024
ASEAN leaders meet in Jakarta in 2021 to discuss a peace plan for Myanmar following the military takeover. (Indonesian Presidential Palace via AP)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar strife risks derailing stalled ASEAN peace agreement

Momentum builds for dialogue, but ongoing conflict complicates resolution

1 May 2024
Karen National Liberation Army troops near Myawaddy on April 15: Myanmar's civil war has strengthened ethnic armed groups.
Opinion

U.S. 'nonlethal' aid for Myanmar's ethnic armies likely to backfire

Increased violence would be costly for all parties

29 April 2024
Soil containing rare-earth elements for export is transported at a port in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu province.
Commodities

China's rare-earth miners suffer profit falls as new supply chains rise

Global shifts and shaky domestic economy hit prices in strategic industry

29 April 2024
A sickly woman rides in an aid truck to return to Myanmar after refugees were told by Thai soldiers to return home on April 24. (Photo by Mauk Kham Wah)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar refugees sent back from Thailand as military, rebels regroup

Thousands take shelter at border as rebels hold off military convoy

25 April 2024
People fleeing violence in Myawaddy, Myanmar, arrive in Mae Sot on Thailand's side of the border on April 20.
Myanmar Crisis

Thailand downplays risk as Myanmar sends troops to key border town

Number of refugees in Thai temporary shelters falls to 600, foreign minister says

24 April 2024