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The lengths taken by Myanmar to disguise its purchases of Iranian jet fuel suggest U.S. sanctions are biting.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
How purchases of sanctioned Iranian jet fuel were disguised by Myanmar
The lengths taken to disguise the trade suggest U.S. sanctions are biting, but Iranian jet fuel has continued to flow.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing in Hanoi in September during an official state visit to Vietnam
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2026
Japan envoy Sasakawa meets Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing, state media says
The meeting comes as international reengagement with the Southeast Asian nation has ramped up after years of diplomatic isolation.
Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing delivers a speech via video message during a ceremony in Naypyidaw on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 17, 2026
U.S. holds more secret talks with Myanmar’s military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say
It was their second meeting in a month as Washington steps up reengagement with the generals it shunned after their 2021 coup.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing speaks during a joint news conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 10, 2026
U.S. lifts sanctions on daughter of Myanmar military-linked businessman
The move comes a after report that said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had opened talks with Myanmar’s military-installed government.
Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing inspects an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony ahead of his meeting with Malaysia’s prime minister in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 8, 2026
U.S. opens direct talks with Myanmar’s generals, reversing years of isolation
U.S. outreach has focused on targeting scam centers but could lead to broader engagement, including on Myanmar’s mineral deposits, sources have said.
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, at a human trafficking hub near the border with Thailand after a multinational crackdown on compounds run by criminal gangs in February 2025.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 5, 2026
Thai police rescue two Japanese men believed to have been forced into fraud
The men are believed to have been forced to take part in fraud at a base in Myanmar.
Migrants returning from Malaysia look out from a bus upon their arrival at the Myanmar naval base in Thanlyin, Myanmar, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 4, 2026
Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia
The U.N. warns that conditions in Myanmar, consumed by civil war since 2021, mean safe homecomings cannot be guaranteed as required under international law.
Rohingya Muslims in Selangor, Malaysia
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
Malaysia to return thousands to Myanmar, prompting U.N. concerns
The move sparked criticism given the large Myanmar population in Malaysia, including 126,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers.
Smoke rises as fire burns following a Myanmar military airstrike, according to a rebel group that controls the area and a local aid worker, in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
U.N. alarmed by reports that Myanmar air strike killed 50
The Kyauktaw airstrike is the deadliest such attack since a December hospital bombing killed at least 30 people.
Fruit bats rest on tree branches inside a temple complex in India
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Sep 25, 2026
Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65 million years
The largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever conducted is bringing some clarity to the puzzling past of the flying vertebrates.
Remains of unidentified Japanese people who died abroad during World War II are interred at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2026
Japan returns wrongly collected remains to Kazakhstan and Myanmar
The move followed the revelation in 2019 that foreign people’s remains had been confused with those of Japanese people detained in Russia after WWII.
Prisoners on a bus react as they are released from Insein Prison as part of an amnesty to mark Myanmar New Year in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 17.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
Myanmar female prisoners face torture and neglect, rights group says
Since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup, a protracted civil war has gripped the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
Myanmar's Wai Khin Hnin kicks a return against Indonesia's Sumaya during the women's singles final teqball match at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2026
Myanmar captures first Asian Games teqball gold as Spain great Carles Puyol watches
Teqball was invented 14 years ago in a garage in Hungary and features players kicking a ball over a curved table, incorporating elements of the southeast Asian sport sepak takraw.
A participant attends the annual Pride Festival in Hanoi in September 2019. States seeking to stifle work that challenges imposed norms are clearly trying to suppress LGBTQ activism and the community's artistic expression.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2026
Art, surveillance and the politics of memory in Southeast Asia
Moral policing and repression across SE Asia increasingly target artists, especially queer and trans creators, threatening cultural expression.
Myanmar's ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun addresses the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva on March 11, 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2026
Myanmar says U.N. envoy illegitimate ahead of credentials decision
Appointed by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, the ambassador broke with his country’s rulers weeks after their military coup in 2021.
A spirit medium, known locally as a <i>nat kadaw</i>, performs a ritual dance during the annual Taungbyone Spirit Festival in Madaya township, Mandalay region, Myanmar, on Aug. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 2, 2026
In war-split Myanmar, ‘spirit consorts’ commune across divide
At the annual Taungbyone Festival, the dazzling mediums drank, danced and swooned as they communed with the 111 divine ghosts of ancient Burmese folk religion
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall in Moscow on Aug. 18.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2026
Human rights in Myanmar hitting a ‘new low,’ U.N. warns
The U.N. human rights office denounced the “ever-worsening brutal abuse” of the Rohingya minority and the “devastating impact” of illicit economies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing shake hands during their meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow earlier this month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 21, 2026
Myanmar military offensive targets land for Russia-backed port project
Hundreds of troops have been deployed to clear areas marked for a Russia-backed special economic zone in the country’s south.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May. Xi is scheduled to meet Trump in Washington in September.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 21, 2026
U.S. designates American held by China as wrongfully detained
The State Department says Myanmar scholar Min Zin was detained at the airport after he traveled to Yunnan, China, in June on the invitation of the Chinese government.
A groundbreaking ceremony for reconstruction of a war memorial pagoda was held in the Sagaing region, Myanmar, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2026
Reconstruction starts on quake-damaged Japanese war memorials in Myanmar
The memorial pagoda and stone monuments in northern Myanmar were damaged by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit the region in March last year.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru&#039;s Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia&#039;s South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Japan&#039;s immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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