As part of our 'Stories That Shaped Us' series, to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 election, The Irrawaddy revisits a ...

Milad said it was a challenge for her to keep the excitement and energy the Golden Mecca Club brought last year. “There’s a lot of pressure, especially since it's a new club, and you would want to ...

We reviewed this book in 2016. Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech. By Ronan Lee. I.B. Taurus; 288 pages; £19.99 For all her heroic defiance of Myanmar’s generals ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government. The head of Myanmar's military junta has granted amnesty to ...

Myanmar's military government announced releasing around 4,900 prisoners, with 13 foreigners among them, in a mass amnesty to mark its traditional new year. https://p ...

Just as I tried to move past my thoughts and get some work done, I saw the book “Ikigai” sitting pretty on my shelf. The first page I opened gave me an “aha moment.” It was at this moment ...

The leader of Myanmar's ruling military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, is due to travel to Bangkok on Thursday for a regional summit. The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Myanmar last ...

Disasters of all kinds have been commonplace in Myanmar, the country reeling from one crisis after another, whether environmental or political. A brief decade of relative freedom and economic growth ...

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

An earthquake of magnitude around 5 on Richter Scale hit Myanmar on Sunday, two days after deadly tremors led to massive destructions in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand. The earthquake stuck ...

The stench of decaying dead bodies permeated the air in Mandalay-- Myanmar's second-largest city-- on Sunday as rescuers worked frantically to clear rubble in the hope of finding people still ...