To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule on all aspects of life in Myanmar.

Also this week we locate the junta’s emergency minister in Russia studying how to deal with a falling glacier.

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

Oil worth US$150 million from Magwe onshore fields has gone straight to the junta to fuel airstrikes on civilians and other ...

Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents’ daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is ...

Min Aung Hlaing praises China as an ‘eternal good neighbor’, vowing to safeguard its investments following Beijing’s ...

A visiting Chinese public security minister said scam-center gangs employ more than 100,000 callers, with those in Myanmar’s ...

Trump may care little about Myanmar, but a robust U.S. foreign-policy infrastructure means the generals in Naypyitaw have ...

Myanmar’s armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in ...

Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear ...

Recent truces declared by ethnic armies show that China is still the only outside power that can intervene in Myanmar, but ...

In his New Year’s address, Peng Daxun dropped his previous anti-junta rhetoric and focused on working with China to boost stability and development in the Kokang region.