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By WAI MOE Three years after Burma's military regime crushed monk-led protests, at least 262 Buddhist monks and nuns remain behind bars...

By BA KAUNG At an event marking the NLD's 22nd anniversary, Vice-chairman Tin Oo says the party is reconsolidating and will be revitali...

By SAW YAN NAING and LAWI WENG   Representatives of major ethnic cease-fire groups meet in Chiang Mai to consolidate their alliance and dis...

By THE IRRAWADDY On the third anniversary of the violent suppression of the “Saffron Revolution,” the international community should consid...

By KAVI CHONGKITTAVORN If Asean and China again fail to overcome their difference over the guidelines for their proposed conduct in the dis...

By KO HTWE Harn Lay, The Irrawaddy' s illustrator and cartoonist, has created an animated work in video that pokes fun at Burmese junta...

The websites of The Irrawaddy were under attack on Monday morning, shutting down its English and Burmese online editions. We are now working...

By LALIT K JHA Monday, September 27, 2010 WASHINGTON—UN Secretary-General B...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RANGOON—Campaigning has begun officially in Burma for the November elections, with state television and radio broa...

By LALIT K JHA The UN secretary general urges Southeast Asian leaders to work together with the world body to ensure that Burma makes a tra...

By LALIT K JHA The US president repeats his call for a free and fair election in Burma and the release of all political prisoners following...