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The latest news and comment on Myanmar

May 2026

  • Roger Stone in a dark suit and striped tie looks over his shoulder against a blue backdrop.

    Trump ally Roger Stone condemned for providing lobbying services to Myanmar’s military junta

  • Aung San Suu Kyi talking with military official in undisclosed location

    Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest in Naypyidaw

April 2026

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, pose for a photo during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Monday, 13 April, 2026.

    From Jakarta to Manila, south-east Asia turns to Russia to plug fuel, fertiliser gaps caused by Iran war

  • People with umbrellas walk on the road amid heavy rain in Guangzhou

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Torrential rain in southern China leads to flooding fears

  • Hands hold packs of sanitary products called Blue

    Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid

  • A Buddhist monk in red robes stands on a street with other Burmese people outside a shop marked Telenor

    Rights and freedom
    Norway’s state telecoms firm accused of helping Myanmar regime seize activists

  • About 250 missing after boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsizes in Andaman Sea

  • Opinion
    double quotation markIn the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running

    Ajas Khan
  • Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing appointed president after ‘sham’ election

March 2026

  • Afra Elmahdi from Sudan

    Today in Focus
    The brilliant students the UK doesn’t want - podcast

    Why has the UK introduced a ban on student visas for four countries? Today in Focus talks to affected students in Sudan and Afghanistan
    Podcast25:41
  • Army general Min Aung Hlaing, who has ruled the country since 2021, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

    The Guardian view on Myanmar’s forgotten war: the military cosplay democracy but people demand the real thing

    Editorial: Five years of brutal conflict have made the army more determined to crush opposition, and others more convinced they must resist
    • ‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

    • The Myanmar nurses dodging drones to graduate from a secret jungle school

    • Asia scrambles to confront energy crisis unleashed by Iran war – with no end in sight

February 2026

  • People sit on the ground with suitcases watched over by an armed guard.

    Destitute survivors of south-east Asia’s cyberscam farms an ‘international crisis’

  • A man in yellow wearing lion dance performing gear dances from a high pole against a blue sky

    Lunar new year 2026: year of the fire horse around the world – in pictures

    Gallery18
  • Aftermath of Russian air strike on residential area in Kramatorsk.

    Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers

  • Fighters from the People’s Defense Forces

    The Guardian picture essay
    Inside Myanmar’s five-year armed resistance – a photo essay

January 2026

  • Military chief Min Aung Hlaing visits a polling station during the third and final phase of Myanmar's general election in Mandalay on 25 January, 2026.

    Junta-backed party secures sweeping victory in Myanmar’s ‘sham’ election

  • Compounds inside KK Part, one of the major hubs for scam centers and human trafficking in Myawaddy, Myanmar. August 2025.

    China executes 11 people linked to Myanmar scam operation

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