They did not release details of the meeting. Former Thai PM Thaksin was appointed a personal adviser to the Malaysian PM last year; Kuala Lumpur chairs ASEAN this year.

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

Also this week we locate the junta’s emergency minister in Russia studying how to deal with a falling glacier.

Oil worth US$150 million from Magwe onshore fields has gone straight to the junta to fuel airstrikes on civilians and other ...

Seven US-funded clinics, servicing around 80,000 refugees from Myanmar, have closed since the new US administration froze funding.

No elections can be held under a state of emergency, meaning the regime’s vaunted polls will now have to wait until at least the second half of 2025.

Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear ...

The UN’s IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.