Myanmar COVID-19

After rapid growth in the garment sector during the country's period of opening, workers face a host of political and economic challenges.

Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime, even while Myanmar battles a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Beijing has long maintained close relations to the ethnic armed groups lying along its borders with Myanmar.

A looming humanitarian disaster proves the West’s unwillingness to counter the junta.

In recent weeks, the region has seen more than twice as many deaths from the coronavirus than North America.

Without any support from the military regime, hundreds of thousands of villages in Myanmar are crying out for help.

The country currently faces a fatal combination of political upheaval, stalled vaccination efforts, and escalating outbreaks of the virus.

Than Shwe's illness is paralleled by the collapse of the crafted system of semi-democracy that he engineered.

Can Western democracies offer similar aid without legitimizing Myanmar's military administration?

The National Unity Government hopes to capitalize on the junta's incompetent response to the current COVID-19 surge.

The former head of the Myanmar's COVID-19 response says the country could be facing "up to 400,000" dead.