A Chinese actor who went missing last week near the Thai-Myanmar border has been found in Myanmar and may have been the victim of human trafficking, Thai authorities said on Tuesday.

Violence against civilians surged, with thousands jailed, tortured and killed. A UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner (OHCHR) report estimates 5,350 civilian deaths and over 3.3 million ...

Southeast Asian country is now the world’s largest producer of opium and one of the largest manufacturers of synthetic drugs ...

The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

Sources reported that in the 2024 population and household census, only 145 townships successfully collected 100% of the ...

A centuries-old partnership between fishermen and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar is threatened by ...

“Over ten years ago, [Bu Meh] fled a violent situation in her home country of Myanmar, where her people were being ethnically ...

More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats.

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Paul Scully, whose family left Myanmar for Britain, saw ‘horrible things’ as Rohingya Muslim minority suffered violence and persecution ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

There is still no basis to consider them as refugees yet. For now, this is regarded as a case of human trafficking. ..