Cooperating with Kachin’s rebels affords China diplomatic leverage and protection for its considerable investments in the area. But is it worth the damage to its relations with Naypyidaw?

Policymakers should tackle Asia’s diversity problem to reap not just a moral dividend, but an economic one as well.

Even after a year of NLD rule, press freedom in Myanmar is languishing in the dark ages.

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state is drawing international condemnation and fraying relations between the civilian and military authorities.

Although democratization has brought added scrutiny to joint ventures in Myanmar, the NLD government is very much in need of the infrastructure investment that China and India can offer.

Myanmar’s armed groups are scrambling to define themselves in the new era of limited parliamentary democracy.

The government of Myanmar has begun to address the delicate issue of the country’s corruption-plagued jade trade.

Myanmar’s conversion from pariah state to investment opportunity has seen it return to partial international respectability. Could Asia one day offer North Korea a similar chance?

After decades of house arrest and a historic election win in 2015, now comes the hard part for Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi.