Disbandment of multibillion-dollar syndicate run by one of Kokang’s ‘Four Big Families’ marks a major strategic loss for the regime’s financial network.

This week was all about China’s undiminished appetite for Myanmar’s resources amid efforts to reroute key trade and bring online scammers to justice.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...

The democracy movement in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar has for decades found powerful champions in the Republican Party. President George W. Bush introduced, then expanded, wide-ranging ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Voters in Myanmar went to the polls Sunday for the first phase of the country's first general election in five years, conducted under military government supervision while civil war engulfs much of ...

The Trump administration on Monday said it would end yet another Temporary Protected Status immigration program, this time for nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia ...

Review & Outlook: Likening the global threat level to that of 1939, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils reforms to the Pentagon acquisition process that will ‘rebuild the defense industrial ...

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 ...

Myanmar is one of the world's largest suppliers of rare earth production, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Experts say that most of those rare earths are sent to China, especially the less ...

Myanmar’s youth have been leading anti-military resistance efforts following the February 2021 coup. A political solution is necessary to Myanmar’s crisis, and the youth must play a central role in ...