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.

YANGON—Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

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

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

Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents’ daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is ...

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

Min Aung Hlaing praises China as an ‘eternal good neighbor’, vowing to safeguard its investments following Beijing’s ...

The regime says it has no plans to conscript women for military service but it is making lists of eligible women in Yangon ...

Trump may care little about Myanmar, but a robust U.S. foreign-policy infrastructure means the generals in Naypyitaw have ...

A visiting Chinese public security minister said scam-center gangs employ more than 100,000 callers, with those in Myanmar’s ...

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.

Recent truces declared by ethnic armies show that China is still the only outside power that can intervene in Myanmar, but ...