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To truly honor Gen. Aung San’s vision, states should spend the money on developing remote areas

In a meeting with the press council, the generals show they still don’t get the notion of press freedom or the fact that a healthy media has to be independent.

Three FPNCC members fear the northern grouping will abandon them ahead of next month’s peace talks, but they are unlikely to disarm.

Relations between the NLD government and Myanmar army appear to be hanging by a thread with their leaders at loggerheads over international involvement in the Rohingya crisis.

Beijing urges government not to sign MOU in bid to lure Myanmar away from the West

In what appears to be the final countdown to the signing of the Naga peace accord, there are hopes that the finalization of the accord will bring an end to the longest-running insurgency

International preoccupation with Rakhine means many other grave humanitarian issues in Myanmar are being overlooked

UWSA and KIA’s arms factories seen as a model by smaller ethnic armies.

Amid growing militarization, ethnic groups, peace negotiators and other stakeholders say the process no longer fosters open discussion

UN Security Council delegates in Myanmar this week should have spared a thought — and a word — for the thousands displaced by a recent outbreak of fighting in Kachin State.

On World Press Freedom Day, we publish this 2010 recollection by The Irrawaddy’s senior editor of his days printing a clandestine political journal, defying the then military government

UN visits troubled Rakhine State, while China and Western nations continue to both influence and pressure once-isolated Myanmar.

As a landfill fire continues to threaten public health, Yangon’s chief minister has been noticeably absent.

Neither the Home Affairs Minister nor the President can afford to ignore allegations that police hatched a plot to frame two journalists

The world will be watching as U Win Myint seeks to make good on economic, political promises