Many condemned the Myanmar Elections as a “sham”, as the most popular party, the National League for Democracy, is banned ...

Turns out, Myanmar used be in the bottom of the world internet penetration ranking list, right alongside the most unfortunate African countries. And then they climbed up. For the past 3 years Myanmar ...

“Suppose you have a friend, but that friend never shows up for lunch when you invite him,” Than Phyo, a Burmese immigrant and math teacher living in New York City told me. “That’s how our relationship ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With communications increasingly shut down, it seems likely the military will step ...

Since the arrests of elected officials, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, Myanmar has yet again descended into a state of uncertainty. In the span of twenty-four hours, the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This past weekend, the ten member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian ...

A Myanmar blogger who was a poster boy for online resistance to the former junta has become the target of a backlash by social media users for speaking out against hatred aimed at Rohingya Muslims.

On September 30, Myanmar’s parliament approved the government’s proposal to accede to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The proposal to accede to this convention, which bans the ...

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Burmese news blog MoeMaKa Media reported on this video footage of Singapore's Straits Times interviewing some Myanmar citizens and others traveling between Yangon and Singapore. The video footage ...

Rush hour traffic moves near by the Sule Pagoda at dusk December 14, 2011 in Yangon, Myanmar. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) This post was co-authored by Asia Society Senior Advisor Priscilla Clapp, a ...

Editor's Note: We're pleased to announce that this dispatch marks a more formal collaboration with our partners at PRI's the World. From now on, we'll be posting regular written dispatches from the ...