Within days of swearing in as Myanmar’s President, Min Aung Hlaing first step was to release more than 4,000 prisoners including the former President Win Myint and reduce the term of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Unlike past democratic alliances, the SCEF brings together ethnic armed organizations and Bamar-led resistance groups under a unified political and military structure.

After five years of war, armed resistance groups still challenge Myanmar's military across much of the country. But the generals are now stemming losses and reclaiming some territory. Since toppling a ...

As the rebranded regime recaptures critical strongholds, analysts warn Myanmar’s resistance groups must urgently rethink their strategy.

Moving the deposed civilian leader to a “designated residence” for the rest of her prison sentence is part of an effort by Myanmar’s regime to portray legitimacy. By Richard C. Paddock In recent years ...

CEBU-Even if the energy crisis looks set to dominate discussions at 2026’s ASEAN Summit, one question, sometimes discussed in hushed tones, looms: whether, or even when, the regional grouping should ...

The detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, the country's state media has reported. The 80-year-old Nobel laureate has been held in detention - probably in a ...

ASEAN foreign ministers agree to virtual meeting with Myanmar's foreign minister, secretary-general says Myanmar seeking to normalise ties but ASEAN demanding progress on de-escalation and aid access ...

BANGKOK — A little more than a year ago, the government’s military was on the back foot in Myanmar ‘s bloody civil war, pushed out of great swaths of the country’s north by an alliance of seasoned ...

In February 2026, ASEAN’s newest member, Timor-Leste, opened legal proceedings under universal jurisdiction against Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Arakan Army and United League of Arakan chief Twan Mrat Naing gives an interview to Rajeev Bhattacharyya (left) at an undisclosed location somewhere in Myanmar’s Arakan region, on March 2, 2026.

Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking. In lawless regions of the Myanmar-Thai border, compounds run by Chinese criminal ...