Myanmar Crisis

Kirin had hoped to continue selling beer in Myanmar after the dissolution of the joint venture, but it was not able to do so.
Myanmar Crisis

Kirin to sell entire stake in venture with Myanmar military

Facing human rights pressure, Japanese brewery opts for early retreat

30 June 2022
Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, was recently transferred from house arrest to prison.
International relations

Cambodian envoy urges Myanmar to send Suu Kyi home from prison

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn asks regime to pursue 'inclusive' reconciliation

27 June 2022
Cars are seen stuck in a traffic jam in Yangon. The Myanmar government stopped issuing car import permits in October last year. 
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar blocks car, luxury imports amid foreign-currency crunch

Military seeks to balance trade by slashing nonessential purchases

23 June 2022
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, pictured here in 2017, has been under house arrest since February 2021.
Myanmar Crisis

Suu Kyi moved to prison site as Myanmar trial continues: reports

No reason given for transfer of 77-year-old deposed leader from house arrest

23 June 2022
Su Thit and her husband Htet Myat, an ex-army captain, in happier days. “We were only able to meet three times in three years of marriage." (Courtesy Su Thit)  
Tea Leaves

Hey soldier, mind your missus

Myanmar military wives remind us who commands the household

22 June 2022
A bridge connecting Myanmar with India's state of Mizoram: Insurgents from the Indian side are adding to the Southeast Asian country's ethnic strife.
Myanmar Crisis

Insurgents from India add fuel to fire in Myanmar's restive north

Ethnic groups jostle for dominance in Chin, complicating resistance to military regime

19 June 2022
Myanmar bank notes. The country has introduced rules requiring businesses and individuals to exchange foreign currency for kyat.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar to exempt foreign companies from forced currency exchanges

Central bank briefs banking officials on loosening of rule that has created uncertainty

8 June 2022
After the military takeover in February 2021, foreigners who had invested in Myanmar's energy sector began fleeing the country, leaving severe power shortages in their wake.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar energy crisis deepens as power plant investors balk

Military's new minister signals a tougher approach toward businesses

5 June 2022
A buyer checks a jade stone near a mine in resource-rich Kachin State, Myanmar, in 2015. The "self-reliant revolution" of Myanmar's Kachin ethnic minority is made possible by taxes on jade, gold, timber, opium and other resources that stream into China.
Life

Inside Myanmar's strategic 'land of jade'

Military takeover has triggered a fresh drive for Kachin autonomy

27 May 2022
Myanmar poet San Nyein Oo -- now living in exile -- reads a statement of condolence from the local poets' union for Thet Naing Win, who was shot and killed by security forces during protests against the military takeover, in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Feb. 23, 2021. (Getty Images)
Life

Myanmar poets speak out from the front lines of protest

Repression burnishes survivor's guilt and creative resistance

20 May 2022
A perfect storm of political unrest, climate change and disruptions brought on by the war in Ukraine is pushing food security in Asia to crisis point. In Indonesia (pictured), shortages of cooking oil prompted a blanket ban on palm oil exports in late April. 
The Big Story

Asia's food crisis: Ukraine war triggers chain reaction of shortages

Deadly combination of conflict, misgovernance and climate change threatens widespread hunger

18 May 2022
On the Myanmar side of the border with Thailand, the ordination hall at the Wah Fah Waing Inn monastery now sits atop a fortified base. (All photos by Lorcan Lovett)
Life

Guns, not monks, at monastery on Myanmar's Thai border

Refugees and orphan monks live meters from the army they escaped

11 May 2022
A number of countries have downgraded their diplomatic representation in Myanmar, led by its military chief, Min Aung Hlaing. (Source photo by MYANMAR MILITARY INFORMATION TEAM/AFP/Jiji) 
Myanmar Crisis

Diplomatic snubs isolate Myanmar's military regime

Western governments downgrade ties with Naypyidaw

9 May 2022
Eden Group Chairman Chit Khine, seen here in a 2016 photo, was detained on April 25 after returning to Myanmar from a trip overseas, according to local media. (Photo by Kentaro Iwamoto)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar charges tycoon close to Suu Kyi's party with graft

Eden Group founder Chit Khine is National League for Democracy supporter

28 April 2022
Myanmar's ruler, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has arrested a number of associates of Shwe Mann, a rival and a former speaker of the lower house of parliament. (Source photo by Reuters)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's purge of tycoon highlights tension within regime

Military chief may follow 'Xi Jinping's playbook' to eliminate rivals, expert says

17 April 2022
Foreign-made automatic rifles are expensive in Myanmar, prompting some members of the opposition-linked People's Defense Force to make their own weapons. 
Myanmar Crisis

Armed rebels in rural Myanmar keep up campaign against military

Military forces razing villages accused of cooperating with insurgents

15 April 2022
Myanmar military soldiers in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon in 2021. Than Than Swe, 55, one of the bank's deputy governors, was shot at close range by two armed assailants at her home in Yangon on Thursday morning. 
Myanmar Crisis

Shooting of Myanmar central banker shows new forex-rule backlash

Business and embassies protest order to convert dollar inflows to local currency

8 April 2022
A family crosses a river as they flee from Myanmar army attacks in Kayin State last December. (Courtesy of Free Burma Rangers)
Life

No end in sight for Myanmar's Karen insurgency

Military takeover has reignited the ethnic minority group's seven-decade revolt

8 April 2022
The kyat has weakened since Myanmar's military took control of the government in February 2021.
Currencies

Myanmar's forced currency conversions seen making few exceptions

Companies fear disruptions to payments for imports and exports

7 April 2022
Peng Jiasheng, the founding leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDDA), an armed group based in the Kokang region of northern Shan state, who died on Feb. 16 at the age of 94. 
Obituaries

Peng Jiasheng, life and times of a Kokang warlord

'King' of Myanmar's Chinese micro-state highlights web of Sino-Burmese connections

29 March 2022
Japan's top oil refiner Eneos Holdings decided to exit Myanmar's natural gas business, following Mitsubishi Corp., which announced in February that it would withdraw from the project. (Source photo by Reuters) 
Myanmar Crisis

Japan's Eneos to pull plug on Myanmar gas business

Decision follows growing criticism that project has funded country's military

25 March 2022
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his army ousted Myanmar's elected government in a military takeover on Feb. 1 last year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 this year. (Nikkei montage/Reuters/Getty Images/PTTEP）
25 March 2022
Refugees who fled a flare-up in fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic minority rebels prepare to return across the border from Thailand in December 2021. 
Myanmar Crisis

ASEAN envoy sees tough road for cease-fire in first Myanmar trip

Cambodia's Prak Sokhonn denies his trip lends legitimacy to military government

24 March 2022
The Shwe gas field is the only resource development project in which Posco International has a stake. (Photo courtesy of Posco International)
Myanmar Crisis

Asian majors keep Myanmar gas pumping despite EU sanctions

Posco and PTT expand footprint as Total and Chevron head to exit

17 March 2022
Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels has been working to turn the former headquarters of Myanmar Railway into the luxury Peninsula Yangon hotel. (Courtesy Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels)
Myanmar Crisis

Peninsula Hotels takes $87m write-off on halted Yangon project

Hong Kong-based luxury chain to revive development at 'suitable time'

16 March 2022