China and the Myanmar regime have pledged to expand trade and security ties, especially along their border, during talks in the Southeast Asian nation with its junta chief-turned-president and both co...

Fleeing poverty and conflict at home, millions of Myanmar workers have migrated to Malaysia to work, but once there they face abuse from employers and persecution by the authorities.

The Myanmar military has razed dozens of villages in the Rakhine State township to make way for Chinese development projects, displacing tens of thousands and offering few benefits for the local popul...

This edition of Political Insider looks at the exploits of Bo Nagar after the 2021 military coup, from his status as an early leader of the armed resistance to his defection to the junta last month.

Nine years after the brutal military operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh mark another Eid in exile, caught between unfulfilled promises and an uncertain fut...

Myanmar's spiralling rights and humanitarian crises risk getting "much worse" as global attention focuses on the Middle East war and aid dwindles further, the top United Nations expert on the Asian co...

Recent calls for the British government to sanction the Rakhine armed group are misguided and, if heeded, could damage efforts to establish a common resistance front against the regime.

Recent announcements that the regime plans to resume the massive Myitsone dam project in Kachin State, 15 years after it was suspended, are raising alarms among residents and environmentalists.

Letters: Prof Ngaire Woods and Aziz Magid respond to the government’s decision to halt study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

Thai academic Dr Lalita Hanwong, who specialises in Myanmar affairs, talks to Frontier about how the new governments in Thailand and Myanmar might approach their diplomatic relations.

The regime’s policies of capping withdrawals from the country’s banks are eroding public trust in the sector and undoing the progress made during the previous decade.

Thousands of civilians forced to flee fighting between regime and resistance forces in Mandalay Region are now sheltering in the forests of Sagaing Region, with little prospect of safely returning hom...

Many methamphetamine users were forced to quit when war cut off supplies to Rakhine State, but as narcotics flood the market again, residents are asking how the Arakan Army will keep the pills off the...

Women who have suffered health problems and other complications from cosmetic procedures are sounding the alarm about practitioners who use slick advertising on social media while hiding their lack of...

In the Myanmar border town of Mawdaung, seized last year by resistance forces led by the Karen National Union, residents struggle to survive as junta blockades and a closed Thai border leaves them on ...

Stymied by airstrikes, travel bans and school closures, students and teachers in Myanmar’s westernmost state are uncertain of what the future holds for education under Arakan Army control.

Farmers in Ayeyarwady Region face mounting debts and threats to their livelihoods as black bean prices plummet due to a combination of decreased international demand and the junta’s mismanagement of t...

Myanmar's junta announced a new office advising the president on Wednesday, a role which may allow the military chief to formally embed his power over the incoming civilian government.

The imminent termination of Temporary Protected Status leaves 4,000 Myanmar nationals in the United States facing the possibility of deportation to their war-ravaged country.

As the military regime presses ahead with its poll, young voters describe being coerced into voting through fear, family pressure and restrictive laws.

Chinese-run copper mines in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region have become a focal point of fighting between the military and anti-junta resistance forces, while local residents bear the brunt of the regime’s i...

Can the Myanmar junta navigate its way in a nascent new world order, with great powers like China and the United States asserting their control over their “areas of influence”?

The number of MBA programmes offered through private schools in Myanmar has grown in the past decade, but many are not recognised by international institutions – a deficiency that is usually not menti...