One month on from the northern Shan capital’s handover, Beijing’s promised ceasefire monitoring office is nowhere to be seen – raising questions about its trust in the junta.

The MNDAA’s China-aligned economic agenda signals a push for autonomy, legitimacy, and a future rooted in formal trade, tech ...

The influx of Chinese entrepreneurs—including some leasing or buying farmland and homes left behind by the displaced—has ...

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) said the Chinese government is throttling the flow of goods through border crossings, slowing the delivery of medicine, fuel, and other necessities to areas ...

Clashes between the Myanmar military and the MNDAA have persisted since Kokang was taken over by the central government in 2009. However, in August 2024, the MNDAA successfully expelled government ...

"We were already preparing for the operation when we met them," said Kyaw Naing, a spokesman for the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a largely ethnic-Chinese group that is part of ...

The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more ...

Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party has proposed the creation of an independent Rohingya state in the Rohingya-majority region ...

Wars with Myanmar and Bangladesh are unlikely, but political uncertainties at the trijunction of South Asia, Southeast Asia ...

NUG's "reformer"claim is, however, tainted. The 2017 Rohingya eviction was an NLD decision to let China complete its economic ...

Six weeks after a major new disaster, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural ...