Myanmar Crisis

People march in support of the National Unity Government in Dawei, Myanmar, on April 18. The NUG presents itself as a shadow government in opposition to the junta that staged the coup on Feb. 1.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar 'parallel government' pressures junta ahead of ASEAN meeting

Creation of National Unity Government highlights diplomatic dilemmas

19 April 2021
Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing takes part in an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw on March 27.
Myanmar Crisis

Posco cuts ties to Myanmar junta as multinationals face scrutiny

Investors press companies to stop working with military's web of 130 businesses

18 April 2021
Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi is named state counselor on her followers' list of new National Unity Government members.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar coup, from March 30 to April 17: Opponents of junta unveil Suu Kyi-led unity cabinet

Group seeks recognition as 'legitimate government'; ASEAN summit rumblings intensify

17 April 2021
Demonstrators from the Dawei Technological University march in Dawei on Apr. 9: the younger generation is fighting hard to protect freedom.
Opinion

Alarming downward spiral risks turning Myanmar into another Syria

Protracted civil conflict would inevitably draw in neighboring countries

16 April 2021
MiG-29 jet fighters: Myanmar has bought 30 MiG-29s as well as 10 Mi-24 and Mi-35P combat helicopters.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar junta taps Russian air power to bomb ethnic rebels

Military raids on Karen and Kachin states sow 'terror' in anti-coup strongholds

15 April 2021
Then-Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Tateshi Higuchi, left, meets with Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing in October 2017, in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar.
Interview

Myanmar junta efforts to restore calm 'unworkable': ex-Japan envoy

More crackdowns and detentions on horizon as crisis goes from 'bad to worse'

15 April 2021
The ongoing crisis in Myanmar is shaping up as a key test of Vietnam’s mediation diplomacy. (Source photo by Reuters)
Comment

Vietnam's 'mediation diplomacy' faces key test in Myanmar crisis

Hanoi has failed to respond meaningfully to military coup and suppression

14 April 2021
By one count, over 700 citizens have been killed in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 coup. But the international community remains paralyzed, even as the cycle of protests and bloody crackdowns continues.
The Big Story

Failed state: Myanmar collapses into chaos

A divided international response, a fractured country and a murderous regime

14 April 2021
When then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Myanmar in 2013, he brought executives from about 40 companies and organizations. (Nikkei montage/Reuters/Ken Kobayashi)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar coup presses Japan to retreat from Abe-era business push

Southeast Asian country's crisis jeopardizes billions of dollars in investment

13 April 2021
Taiwan's national legislature has passed a motion urging the Myanmar junta to restore democracy and halt its violence against demonstrators opposing the coup. (Nikkei montage/Reuters)
Myanmar Crisis

Taiwan takes tougher line against Myanmar regime

First parliamentary motion in Chinese-speaking world to criticize February coup

12 April 2021
Protesters walk through a market with images of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on April 8.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's brewing currency crisis causes consumer prices to soar

Import-dependent economy sees kyat drop 14% against dollar as gasoline rises 20%

12 April 2021
Zar Li, center, discusses new cases with her team of lawyers. Most of her colleagues are women. (From Facebook)
Life

Women lawyers fight Myanmar junta on legal battlefield

Coup upends life for many young attorneys driven by concern and conscience

12 April 2021
Buyers look at pieces of jade at a market in Mandalay, Myanmar, in March 2019.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar junta reaps millions in gem sales as economy crumbles

New data highlights potential for country to slide even deeper into poverty

10 April 2021
An anti-coup protester shows the three-fingered salute of resistance during a strike walk in Yangon on April 9.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar tribunal sentences 19 to death for violence toward military

Defendants accused of killing one, injuring another tried under martial law

10 April 2021
Dr. Sasa reminds Myanmar's diplomats that "they are not representing the military generals; they are representing the people of Myanmar."
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar civilian envoy pleads with China and Russia to 'stop' junta

Exiled representative also says Japan must sanction military government

9 April 2021
A Rohingya woman displays identity cards of family members issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on March 9.
Myanmar Crisis

Rohingya in India under threat of deportation to junta-ruled Myanmar

With court nod and political gains, New Delhi expected to move Muslim minority

8 April 2021
Zahairi Baharim, Malaysia's ambassador to Myanmar, presents his credentials in 2018.
Myanmar Crisis

Malaysia envoy's meeting with Myanmar junta sparks uproar

Foreign ministry rejects criticism that move lends regime legitimacy

8 April 2021
Protesters hold pictures of those who died during rallies against the junta, and offer prayers for them, in Yangon on April 5. The violence has spurred a scramble for a diplomatic solution.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's brutal violence spurs ASEAN diplomacy: 5 things to know

Summit on horizon as crisis creates 'additional irritant' for US and China

8 April 2021
The state-rung Global New Light of Myanmar has published lists of people wanted for "spreading news to affect state stability."
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar junta targets 100 celebrities active on social media

Actors and singers put on wanted list as crackdown escalates

8 April 2021
Myanmar's military has stepped up violence against protesters over the last nine weeks. 
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar army kills eight near India border in dawn ambush

Kalay becomes a resistance hideout as student protesters call for more to take arms

7 April 2021
The coup and resultant demonstrations in Myanmar have foreign companies operating in the country on an edge.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar protesters test values of their Japanese employers

Companies fear boycotts if they give employee withholdings to the junta

7 April 2021
Cho, a Yangon-based worker for female empowerment, holds a poster at an anti-coup protest in Myanmar. Before the violence of the coup, she says, "we never realized how badly the soldiers were behaving" in other parts of the country. (Courtesy of Cho)
Life

How Myanmar's post-coup violence is transforming a generation

Bloodshed leads to soul-searching in majority Burman community

7 April 2021
A chaotic scene during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, pictured on Mar. 16: neither the U.S. nor China wants to do more than they have already done.
Opinion

ASEAN's alibi diplomacy must be allowed to take effect in Myanmar

Outside actors have limited ability to influence the course of events

3 April 2021
Myanmar protesters worry that a wireless broadband shutdown will lead to an information blackout.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar shutdown of wireless internet fuels fears of news blackout

Move aimed at hitting protest movement ignores business pleas

2 April 2021
Myanmar's ambassador the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun, has defined the junta by denouncing it to the United Nations General Assembly.
Interview

Myanmar's UN envoy calls for temporary halt to foreign investment

Saving lives must take priority over enriching the military, Kyaw Moe Tun says

2 April 2021