Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Photo: EPA
17 January 2021
China’s ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’ is leaving a sour aftertaste globally. Beijing’s...
An ambulance drives pass near the supporters of National League for Democracy (NLD) party, led by Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as they celebrate along the road headed to the party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, 09 November 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
10 January 2021
COVID-19 has allowed governments across Southeast Asia to further chip away at already...
A landscape of Muktinath area surrounded by mountains in Mustang District, Nepal. Photo: EPA
20 December 2020
For a tiny landlocked country like Nepal, logistical routes are limited and a small...
Myanmar women carrying buckets on their heads collect drinking water from the outskirts of Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
20 December 2020
As the Myanmar November 2020 elections bestowed a renewed and larger mandate for the...
Pedestrians cross a road across the Sule Pagoda (L) in Yangon. Photo: AFP
16 December 2020
On November 1, the then incumbent NLD government announced via the government newspaper...
06 December 2020
Mizzima Editor Win Naing recently sat down with Japan Special envoy Sasakawa Yohei,...
(File) Myanmar's national flag (L) and China's national flag (R) are hoisted on the Chinese Navy training vessel 'Zheng He' as it arrives Myanmar International Terminals Thilawa port of Yangon, Myanmar, 23 May 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
30 November 2020
Call it China’s deep-seated frustration or the Chinese Communist Party’s belief in might...
(File) Women dancers from Myo Shwe Mann Thar Phoe Chit troupee, practice during the rehearsal inside the mini-theater of Thabin compound in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 August 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
29 November 2020
In early 2020, Awa had just turned 15 years old when she heard that her marriage was...
A woman votes at a polling station in Yangon on October 29, 2020, as advance voting in the country's elections began for elderly people. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
06 November 2020
Ethnic political parties have come together in the run-up to Myanmar’s national election...
A medical volunteer (R) casts her ballot in a mobile polling station inside a Covid-19 coronavirus medical center in Yangon on October 29, 2020. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
05 November 2020
This election is shaping up to be less about the democratic optimism that brought the...
A volunteer from Clean Yangon carries food to give low income people from a slum area in Yangon, Myanmar, 05 April 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
25 October 2020
Countries across the globe, including Myanmar, are facing the twin challenges of...
Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party on a motorcade pass supporters of the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), seen at right, during a campaign in Wundwin, near Mandalay on September 19, 2020. Photo: Kyaw Thet Zin/AFP
20 October 2020
COVID-19 has already cast a darkening shadow of gloom over Myanmar’s November election. A...

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