U Khin Yi posted on Facebook about his meeting with a Thai Foreign Ministry advisor, but so far even China and Russia remain ...

As Min Aung Hlaing’s right-hand man, U Aung Lin Dwe signed over 350 orders on his boss’sbehalf to keep the regime running. Now he will oversee the selection of the next head of state.

Regime media said over 500 resistance fighters surrendered, but Mandalay PDF disputed the claim, calling the ceremony a propaganda stunt.

The united front against the junta in northern Shan State fell apart last week, leaving Beijing as the key powerbroker on Myanmar’s northeastern frontier.

The junta’s most powerful PR weapon on the international stage is that it is the only thing holding Myanmar together. Nonsense, says Paul Greening: the future is federal.

As war devastates Myanmar, Beijing’s LMC mechanism is providing the regime with funding, legitimacy and a platform for continued engagement.

Just as Gen. Ukris Boontanondha met a full complement of Myanmar’s military leadership, the FBI pledged to put a final stop to scam compounds operating on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Ostensibly bringing Myanmar passports in line with international standards, the e-passport law is far too vague and offers zero privacy protection or recourse, critics say.

Fighting on frontier breaks out one day after Chinese envoy visits Naypyitaw, prompting suspicion of coordinated effort to restore border trade.

Former military insider Swe Taw analyses the losses and gains of the resistance in northern Shan State and Mandalay as the junta proclaims victory across the region.

Six Ukrainians and an American are also accused of smuggling drones through the volatile Indian state of Mizoram to rebels on the Myanmar side.

Both the military regime and the resistance elites are stuck in the old centralist thinking, but a new bottom-up federalist movement is emerging, says Zaw Tuseng.