Aung Zaw, the founding editor-in-chief of the news magazine The Irrawaddy, has been covering Myanmar for more than three decades. As a student activist in the 1980s, he was detained and tortured ...

The owner of three mobile phone shops in Mandalay, Myanmar has been arrested for announcing on Facebook he was giving his employees a raise. Word of his ...

Student Aung Phyo, 20, said he arrived at the embassy at ... armed groups belonging to ethnic minorities. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said on Saturday the military service system was needed ...