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Khairul (left) and Minara at MSF’s clinic in Penang.

In no man’s land: Malaysia’s unwanted refugees

At a free health clinic in Penang, some of the tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have poured into Malaysia from war-torn Myanmar talk about life in a country that denies them meaningful support, rights and status.

  • Zach Hope

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Kim Aris, younger son of Aung San Suu Kyi, poses for a portrait in Stanhope Gardens, Sydney, Tuesday, 9 June 2026. Aris, who is visiting Australia as part of a global campaign called Proof of Life, wants the Myanmar junta release his mother, but the campaign is calling for them to prove the Nobel Peace Prize winner is alive after more than five years in jail since the coup. Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald

Kim wants to know if his mum is alive. It’s not easy for the son of Suu Kyi

The pro-democracy icon has been detained by a secretive, brutal junta that has waged war against its own citizens since February 2021. Her younger son is demanding answers.

  • Michael Ruffles
Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar’s military dictators don’t care about Aung San Suu Kyi. Here’s what they really crave

The regime has moved the popular Nobel laureate from a jail to home detention, but it’s unlikely the leopard is changing its spots.

  • Zach Hope

The April 11 edition

Artist Khaled Sabsabi: after the storm | Investigating an ‘unnatural’ death | Dog-park etiquette | The young ‘Elvis’ living his Pa’s dream | A quiet Aussie hero

Sean Turnell, economist once imprisoned in Myanmar.

There is war in our backyard and we have forgotten all about it

As everyone was absorbing the RBA’s decision to raise interest rates on Tuesday evening, one economist received something of a rock-star reception in Sydney.

  • Michael Ruffles

Myanmar’s elections will be neither free nor fair. But could they rattle the deadly status quo?

Min Aung Hlaing is desperate for his regime to be seen as legitimate, and he believes elections starting on December 28 are a means to that end.

  • Zach Hope
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Myanmar’s military killed and injured dozens of people in an airstrike on Mrauk U hospital in Rakhine state.

Junta airstrikes on Myanmar hospital kill at least 33

The hit could be the deadliest on a hospital in almost five years of Myanmar civil war.

  • Zach Hope
A soldier from rebel group, the Karen National Liberation Army, recovers from a double amputation in a secret hospital over the border in Thailand.

‘Deluded’ Trump administration deems Myanmar safe, tells citizens to go back home

Human rights groups have condemned the move, accusing the US of aiding and abetting the Myanmar military junta which is “actively seeking to crush its people”.

  • Zach Hope
Trump in Egypt on October 13.

The deadly war raging on Australia’s doorstep that Trump won’t touch

Credit where it’s due, the US president has been making things happen in the Middle East. But there is another brutal conflict no one will touch, even as the UN pleads for help.

  • Zach Hope
Refugees ride along borderlands

How a river saved a village when war reached its doorstep

The day the fighting neared their village, the residents of Pu Lu Palaw made for the river. Thai soldiers helped them cross. But peace was only fleeting.

  • Kate Geraghty and Zach Hope