Dark Days for Media Freedom in Burma

The billionaire’s call to shut down the US-funded media organizations, which reach hundreds of millions of people globally, follows his...

To mark World Press Freedom Day, The Irrawaddy presents a compendium of its articles on press freedom and the repression...

The regime’s newspapers were filled with tirades against José Ramos-Horta after he urged junta troops to defect, and its backers...

Also this week, China appeased after Taiwan election, forced recruitment as resistance threatens to decouple main cities, power plea for...

The media’s increasing obsession with ‘national disintegration’ is playing into the junta’s hands and threatening progress toward peaceful federalism.

Also over the past seven days, Min Aung Hlaing failed to boost morale in battered army, while the junta tried...