Myanmar’s upcoming, tightly controlled “elections” are designed to manufacture legitimacy for the junta, which hopes the mere ...

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 ...

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.

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. With communications increasingly shut down, it seems likely the military will step ...

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 ...

With Myanmar now well into its fifth year of military rule, the country’s 54 million people continue to suffer what the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has described as an “unprecedented ...

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 ...

Dathana at Nyein Chan Yar blog introduces other blogs by Myanmar bloggers both inside and outside the country. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media ...