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Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has vowed to “annihilate” the military’s opponents in Myanmar.

Losing ground to rebels, Myanmar junta tries an olive branch

Just as resistance forces appear close to capturing the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, military rulers put up a new proposal.

  • Sui-Lee Wee

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Myanmar floods.

After Vietnam, Typhoon Yagi came for war-ravaged Myanmar

Even before the typhoon, the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.

  • Zach Hope
Economics professor Sean Turnell at his Sydney home.

Australia’s least likely spy on tipping the balance in a brutal civil war

Sean Turnell was Aung San Suu Kyi’s financial Mr Fix-it and says everything is pointing to the defeat of Myanmar’s junta.

  • Michael Ruffles
Karen forces and allied groups took the town of Myawaddy from Myanmar’s military junta last week.

Rebels celebrate taking key border town, Thailand left scrambling

Concerns of a Myanmar military counter-offensive at the border has drawn neighbouring Thailand closer to the conflict.

  • Zach Hope
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop last year.

Julie Bishop named United Nations special envoy for Myanmar

Myanmar has been locked in civil war since the army took power from Aung Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021.

  • Michael Mehr and John Kidman
Members of South-East Asian diaspora communities rallied on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House ahead of the ASEAN summit in Melbourne.

Speaking up in Australia, risking retribution against their families in Asia

Hundreds rallied on the steps of Victorian parliament to protest against human rights abuses in South-East Asian nations ahead of a diplomatic summit in Melbourne.

  • Alex Crowe
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Sean Turnell and his wife, Ha Vu, before his imprisonment in February 2021.

Sean Turnell spent 650 days in a Myanmar jail. His humour survived

The Sydney economist is no Jason Bourne, but as an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi’s government he was in the junta’s sights soon after the 2021 coup.

  • Michael Ruffles
A man looks on at homes destroyed after air and artillery strikes in Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp, in Laiza, Myanmar, on Tuesday.

Women and children among dozens killed in attack on refugee camp on China border

The Myanmar ruling junta has been accused to carrying out the airstrikes, the deadliest attack on civilians since it seized power in a 2021 coup.

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Customers drink Myanmar Beer, manufactured by Myanmar Brewery Ltd, at a bar in Yangon, Myanmar, before the coup.

Beer at gunpoint: Myanmar generals deal with local boycott

Products linked to Myanmar’s military junta have been facing boycotts from consumers and businesses.

  • Chris Barrett
Aung San Suu Kyi’s governing National League for Democracy Party was overthrown by the military.

Jailed Aung San Suu Kyi ill and denied medical care, says son

The 78-year-old’s condition has led her family to raise new concerns about her treatment by Myanmar’s military, which has detained her since a 2021 coup.

  • Chris Barrett

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