The National Unity Government was formed as a pro-democracy alternative to the junta. But, critics say, it has failed to achieve most of its goals.

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Aizawl: Two major civil society groups in south Mizoram’s Lawngtlai and Siaha districts have decided to close the border with Myanmar after a 37-year-old man, missing from Salachhuah village in ...

Myanmar’s junta-backed party has secured an overwhelming victory in the country’s first elections since the military seized power in 2021. While the exercise was widely denounced as a sham, some in ...

Many internationals now assume that Myanmar’s political future will ultimately be determined by Beijing. This is a profound misreading.

Myanmar’s so-called election that began on December 8, 2025, is not a political event worth celebrating. It is not even one worth debating at ...

A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against the country's prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against the ...

Shan State reported 44 massacres that killed 444 people, followed by Magwe Region with 41 cases and 289 deaths, Kachin State with 24 cases and 394 deaths, Next came Bago region with 17 massacres and ...

In the study of my Ajman home is a bistro table printed with a mosaic of numbers mostly in black and red. At the centre of ...

At last year's conference, held a few weeks into US President Donald Trump's second term, Vice President JD Vance stunned European leaders by lecturing them about the state of democracy and freedom of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

TP Sreenivasan and Declan Walsh in conversation at MBIFL 2026 At Circle of Fire: India and Her Neighbours, a session at the ...