Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Several of these questions seem to have been answered by Sunday’s election; ...

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

Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021.

Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar (Burma), claimed during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that conditions in the country had ...

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Less than two years ago, on Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup d’etat. Since then, international headlines might have faded, but the situation in the country has only become more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toward the end of February, David Stanley ’23 stayed up late every night to work on his most recent project: “Save Myanmar,” a short video documenting a recent military coup and subsequent riots in ...

Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has been documenting the people of Myanmar since 1987. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is the creator and editor of Verve Photo and has returned to Myanmar several times ...

Myanmar farmers collect paddy seedlings from flooded fields to replant in Ayeyawaddy Division, outside Yangon, in August 2012. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images) The political and economic reforms ...