Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing’s choice of Russia for his first trip outside the region since leading a coup highlights his rocky relations with Beijing, analysts say.
Experts say more people are likely to turn to illegal poppy farming as pandemic and coup drag legal economy down.
Rights groups say police investigations into journalists, protesters and opposition lawmakers have picked up since the country entered a state of emergency in January
Government says law will rein in wayward nonprofits; rights groups say it would give authorities unchecked powers to stifle critics.
Analysts say Myanmar’s military regime will exploit the plan's lack of detail to set the terms and stick to its own agenda.
One of oldest and largest ethnic armed groups, Karen National Union, says protesters coming from lowlands of central Myanmar have been trekking to rebels’ hilly jungle redouts for training since late March.
Moves by World Bank and Asian Development Bank to freeze funds to post-coup Myanmar could make many vulnerable communities worse off even as lenders look for ways to keep some projects going without government, analysts and experts say.
Close relatives of the virus causing the pandemic have cropped up in Thailand and Cambodia, raising the odds of an origin outside of China.
Malaysians convicted of spreading fake news about the pandemic or the country’s state of emergency could face jail for up to six years.
The UN and rights groups say refugees and asylum-seekers may be among those being held in Malaysia.
'The rail is definitely going to bring economic benefits. It’s basically economic benefits for … greater political influence,' says an analyst.
Some activists say foreign firms operating and investing in the country’s multibillion-dollar gas fields will be propping up a junta unless they pull out.
Firms from Japan and Singapore say they’re cutting ties; experts expect more to follow.
Generals could draw country closer to China and Russia, some analysts believe.
China and Myanmar agreed to push ahead with a controversial Belt and Road project and lock in a five-year pact on trade and economic cooperation.
The government is drawing up 30 charges against Brightway Holdings and its subsidiaries after inspectors find hundreds of migrant workers living in squalid conditions.
Rights groups say the campaign may net some arrests but believe the corruption is seeded too deep for the prime minister's plan to root it out.
Thailand says most of the 200 million doses the British pharmaceutical firm plans to churn out of a local lab will go to neighboring countries.
A group of ex-lawmakers barred from public office are backing reformist candidates in local elections long dominated by entrenched family networks.
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