Three years ago, the Myanmar military staged a coup that ended a decade-long experiment with limited democracy and civilian government, reimposing a brutal and repressive regime. The coup provoked an ...

Relatives mourn near bodies of deceased Rohingya refugees who drowned in the Naf river, in Teknaf. A small boat packed with refugees fleeing war-torn Myanmar sunk while crossing a river to Bangladesh ...

Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review. With the democratization of ...

With over half of Myanmar’s population using Facebook, the platform is synonymous with the internet for many residents in the country, and many users consider the posts and pages on their news feed to ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On Monday morning Myanmar time, the Myanmar military staged a coup, its first coup ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the death toll was likely to ...