Media rights groups mark World Press Freedom Day by highlighting Myanmar's many journalists behind bars and killed by the regime.

On World Press Freedom Day, The Irrawaddy takes this opportunity to restate its mission: to promote democracy in Myanmar by reporting honestly on what is happening there.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners says 40 under-18s were among the females killed by the regime between January and April.

It says the ban is temporary, but has not yet offered a reason for the move, which comes amid forced conscription of recruits for the regime’s depleted military.

On World Press Freedom Day, we redouble our commitment to providing the people of Myanmar with independent journalism and accurate information.

The regime pointed to low rainfall and natural gas yields, as well as destruction of infrastructure by resistance groups, as reasons for the shortfall.

Myanmar faced a record-breaking temperature rise in April with Chauk in Magwe Region named as the world’s second-hottest city after the mercury there climbed above 48 degrees Celsius (118F). Over a ...

Large numbers of junta troops advancing on Myawaddy on the Thai border have not breached most anti-regime defensive lines, according to the Karen National Union (KNU). The regime in mid-April ...

The Arakan Army (AA) is getting closer to a full attack on its biggest target so far – the Western Command headquarters of Myanmar’s military – in Rakhine State’s Ann Township, a spokesman for the ...

The lack of jobs, rising costs and denial of the right to strike mean Myanmar's workers have never had it so bad, say labor ...

Located in the Chin Hills of the Arakan Mountains, Kyindwe is a remote and undeveloped town. It has neither jade mines that ...

YANGON—Delivery rider Than Toe Aung pedals his bicycle through a punishing heatwave in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, ...