Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, seen at a ceremony in Bangkok in January, says Thailand can take in another 100,000 Myanmar refugees. (Photo by Hiroki Endo)
Myanmar Crisis

Thailand denies Myanmar officials took Myawaddy evacuation flight

Minister says plane carried documents, country can take 100,000 more refugees

9 April 2024
Troops from the People's Defense Forces' sixth brigade, responsible for the Myawaddy frontline, are on duty in Myanmar's Karen state in 2023. The forces' recent successes have sent civil servants fleeing to Thailand. (Photo by Berry)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar military faces humiliating rout on Thai border

Evacuation from trade hub Myawaddy highlights military regime's growing losses

8 April 2024
Julie Bishop, then Australian foreign minister, arrives for a meeting in Canberra in August 2018. 
Myanmar Crisis

U.N. taps ex-Australian foreign minister as special envoy for Myanmar

Regional diplomats welcome 'strategic' appointment of Julie Bishop

6 April 2024
Myanmar's military regime says it shot down this drone. (Photo courtesy of Myanmar military authority)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar anti-regime forces close in on capital with drone attacks

With HQ and base targeted, military's mouthpiece says 'fortunately' no casualties

5 April 2024
Myanmar soldiers salute during an Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyitaw on March 27.
Myanmar Crisis

As Myanmar starts military draft, many flee the country

Potential recruits' departures drive national currency to near-record weakness

5 April 2024
A young soldier from an armed ethnic group in Myanmar who lost both legs to a landmine.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar saw threefold increase in landmine casualties in 2023

Most deaths and maimings in regions with worst fighting, says UNICEF

4 April 2024
Chinese forces are practicing rapid deployment, precision strikes and more in a two-day live-fire drill near the Myanmar border. (China Defense Ministry)
Defense

China begins live-fire military drills near Myanmar border

Beijing urges Myanmar forces and armed groups to end fighting

3 April 2024
Anxiety is spreading as messages regarding Myanmar's new draft are sent out to smartphone users. (Photo obtained by Nikkei)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar mobile providers face uncertainty under military control

Draft, service outages and sanctions threaten stability of industry

30 March 2024
Unidentified officials -- some thought to be Chinese -- at Thailand's Mae Sot International Airport prepare for the deportation of Chinese nationals brought across from Myanmar on Feb. 29. (Photo by Danielle Keeton-Olsen)
Crime

Thailand's low-key deportations to China latest scamdemic twist

Beijing-driven clampdown on Myanmar could force regional crime shift

29 March 2024
The Border Guard Force, a large ethnic Karen armed group, has dropped its allegiance to the military government in Myanmar -- possibly to protect its position in Shwe Kokko, the largest of a number of criminal enclaves on the Myanmar side of the Moei River.  
Myanmar Crisis

Karen border force tilts away from Myanmar military regime

Group protecting turf in major crime center along Thai border, says expert

29 March 2024
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 79th Armed Forces Day on March 27.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar military scales back annual parade as fighting escalates

Regime prioritizes combating growing resistance by ethnic minority armed groups

28 March 2024
Myanmar-China ties have frayed further after the former's stretched regime was overrun by coordinated attacks by a coalition of ethnic and anti-military resistance forces. (Nikkei montage/Soure photos by Reuters/AP)
Myanmar Crisis

'Trust deficit' between China and Myanmar's military, report says

Beijing's reluctance to engage with regime leaves room for international consensus

27 March 2024
Aung San Suu Kyi at her Yangon home, 54 University Avenue, in early October 1988. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's failed auction of Suu Kyi's home creates conundrum

Bitter family feud imperils one of most historic buildings in Yangon

22 March 2024
The Peninsula hotel construction site in Yangon last year. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)
Travel & Leisure

Peninsula Hotels group says $130m Myanmar project still stalled

Hong Kong operator makes first post-COVID profit but greater China a strain

19 March 2024
A district in Yangon where employees of the military-affiliated Myanmar Economic Corp. live was targeted by an explosion on March 10. (Photo by Nikkei) 
Myanmar Crisis

Bomb attacks in Yangon put Myanmar's biggest city on edge

Explosions targeting military-linked companies draw conflict closer to foreigners

13 March 2024
People who fled Myanmar at a relief camp in India. Thousands of civilians and hundreds of troops have fled to Indian states.
Myanmar Crisis

India begins deporting 1st group of Myanmar refugees who fled coup

U.S. State Department is 'concerned' about deportations, calls for protection

10 March 2024
Myanmar's military wants to supplement its depleted forces through a draft targeting the general public.
The Nikkei View

Myanmar's conscription measure is unacceptable

Military must not force citizens to fight each other in a civil war

6 March 2024
City Express added 31 locations last year, bringing the chain to 125 stores nationwide. (Photo by Nikkei)
Retail

Myanmar's City Mart ramps up expansion of convenience stores

Retail group goes on the offensive with minimarts to capture young customers

6 March 2024
A senior official from Myanmar attends the ASEAN defense ministers' meeting in Luang Prabang on March 5. (Photo by Kenya Akama)
Myanmar Crisis

ASEAN considers including Europe in defense talks to enhance ties

Move comes as China's clout grows, global tensions spill into Southeast Asia

5 March 2024
Zomawi sells essentials along a road to India's Manipur, after fleeing her village in Myanmar amid the country's civil war. (Photo by Greeshma Kuthar)
International relations

Myanmar-India border residents trapped between two wars

New Delhi ends free cross-border movement as suspicion swirls in strife-torn Manipur

2 March 2024
Myanmar military government spokesman Zaw Min Tun said on Feb. 20 that there are no plans "at present" to include women in the draft.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar military exempts women from draft for now

More men to be conscripted as total target remains unchanged

22 February 2024
Rohingya refugees walk along a road at the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2019. Dhaka says it cannot handle another influx as it already hosts over a million Rohingya people.
Myanmar Crisis

Bangladesh resists growing calls to accept more Rohingyas from Myanmar

Pressure builds as war rages next door, U.N. appeals on humanitarian grounds

21 February 2024
Customers visit a Leapmotor electric vehicle showroom in Yangon. (Photo by Nikkei)
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's military regime promotes EVs with a heavy hand

Tariff exemption, ban on gasoline-powered cars lead to influx of Chinese-made vehicles

17 February 2024
Resistance force members train at a base in eastern Myanmar. Some analysts say the military's draft order could end up benefitting resistance forces. (Photo by Maung Moe)
Myanmar Crisis

'I'd rather cut off a few fingers': Myanmar's draft fuels popular backlash

Critics say order will send new waves of recruits to resistance forces

14 February 2024
Workers in Bangkok protest a Myanmar military decree that they remit at least 25% of their pay to the Myanmar banking system in September 2023.
Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar's shadow government pressures overseas job agencies

NUG threatens to prosecute companies that tax 'remittances to benefit the junta'

13 February 2024