This article by Zung Ring was originally published on May 27, 2025, on The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar that has been exiled in Thailand since the military coup in 2021.An edited ...

Even before it made its backing for the regime explicit, Beijing was a key arms supplier to the junta and, with Russia, stood by it at the UN. Meanwhile, under Chinese pressure, ethnic armed groups ...

Rare earth mining, long concentrated in Myanmar’s Kachin state to the north, now appears to be spreading south, bringing with it extensive deforestation and water pollution.

China and Myanmar mark 75 years of diplomatic ties at a time when both countries face challenges of their own - Beijing is dealing with heightened tensions with Washington and Naypyidaw continues ...

The dragon has landed in the soup. The tribesmen in the Shan state of Myanmar are up in arms against the Myanmar-China joint venture project for extracting rare earth minerals. Hundreds of tribals in ...

China shares a 2,100-kilometre (1,300-mile) border with Myanmar and has long been a lucrative market for the country's natural resources, including jade, gemstones, teak logs and metal ores.

Myanmar’s military government has awarded its first offshore production sharing contract since seizing power in February 2021. State-owned Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE) under the nation’s ...

TOKYO -- A Myanmar-based startup that builds affordable housing made from bamboo for displaced people in the country hopes to bring its business model to South Asian nations such as Bhutan and ...

Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...

TORONTO - Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd.‘s historic purchase of Hudson’s Bay trademarks will go ahead after an Ontario judge granted permission for the deal. In approving the $30-million deal on ...

Heavy rain for nearly a week triggered flooding in northern and central Myanmar, impacting hundreds of people already reeling from ongoing civil war and a recent deadly earthquake. Extensive flooding ...

Khin Khin Nyo, 54, a senior staff member at a financial institution in Yangon, Myanmar, has little interest in the national election the military junta plans to hold at the end of the year or early ...