BANGKOK--major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar has announced a unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with the ruling military and called for a dialogue under Chinese auspices to help restore peace in ...
As Myanmar's crisis enters its fifth year this week, there is still no light at the end of the tunnel.The State Administration Council (SAC) is still hoping that its long-planned election, which is ...
This post is an adapted version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Before the 2021 military ...
In Myanmar, a relatively new ethnic armed group known as the Arakan Army has recently taken control of 15 out of 17 townships in the war-torn country's western Rakhine state. This includes the ...
The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.
Rakhine state in Myanmar's west is riven with ethnic and religious divisions. It came under the global spotlight after a bloody 2017 army crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over ...
10, 2023. (AP Photo, File) BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast have signed a formal ceasefire agreement, mediator China said Monday.
BANGKOK--An ethnic armed group in northeastern Myanmar has seized a major crossing point for trade along the Chinese border, residents and media reports said. The border gate in Laukkaing township ...