In February 2025, Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing reshuffled key military positions, mirroring the succession strategy of former military leader Than Shwe. By promoting younger officers and ...

The new association aims to drive massive Chinese investment as Beijing deepens economic ties with Myanmar’s junta following its staged election.

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s security forces arrested the son-in-law of the country’s former longtime military ruler, Than Shwe, for allegedly posting inflammatory statements on his Facebook account, the state ...

The crackdown at Shwe Kokko marks an extension of the junta’s anti-scam campaign, but there are reasons to be skeptical. Myanmar’s military government says that it has raided a second major online ...

Shwe previously had escaped the sort of international notoriety reserved for dictators like Pol Pot in Cambodia, Idi Amin in Uganda and Joseph Stalin in Russia. But history will hold him accountable ...