Myanmar makes more meth than anywhere else. Opium production there also just hit a decade high, report says

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war ...

Myanmar: Drug production booming amid civil war

Meth production and opium poppy cultivation are growing and expanding in Myanmar, according to the UN, with many armed groups ...
World Politics Review

Myanmar’s Civil War Is Heading Toward Stalemate, Not Regime Change

Opposition fighters take a break from a battle against the military junta, in Demoso, Myanmar, Jan. 7, 2024 (Sipa photo by Thu Myae via AP Images). The past year has seen a dramatic shift in momentum ...
Foreign Affairs

Myanmar Is Fragmenting—but Not Falling Apart

The conflict in Myanmar, now in its fourth year, has claimed thousands of civilian lives and displaced more than three million people. Since toppling the democratically elected government of Aung San ...
Foreign Affairs

The Chance to Save Myanmar

Since Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in 2021, it has ruled with devastating violence. Junta forces have bombed civilians in a bid to suppress rebellious ...
Time

How Myanmar’s Civil War Could Actually End

The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a military coup toppled its civilian government in 2021. While the ...
The Diplomat

Myanmar’s New Taxation and Conscription Policies Are Likely to Increase Irregular Migration

As Myanmar grapples with ongoing political turmoil, recent directives have exacerbated the challenges faced by its citizens. The enforcement of conscription laws and the imposition of new taxation and ...
The Conversation

Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before

Nyi Nyi Kyaw does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Reuters

New evidence shows how Myanmar's military planned its brutal purge of the Rohingya

A copy of the report by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability into the “criminal responsibility” of senior officials in the expulsion of the Rohingya. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes ...
Mongabay

Myanmar risks losing forests to oil palm, but there’s time to pivot

The Myanmar government has to date handed out more than 400,000 hectares (nearly a million acres) of oil palm concessions to 44 companies, some of it overlapping with proposed national parks. But ...
The Conversation

Myanmar’s misery: 3 years after the military coup, is there any end in sight for a ravaged country?

Nicholas Farrelly has previously received funding from the Australian Research Council for Myanmar-focussed work. He is on the board of the Australia-ASEAN Council, which is an Australian government ...
The Diplomat

Myanmar’s Missing Millions

In this July 27, 2021, file photo, ferry passengers wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk past a “Stop COVID-19” poster at the Pansodan jetty in Yangon, Myanmar. Credit: ...