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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
Keith Davis (centre) is whisked away and prevented from talking to reporters at Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.

It’s two years since a Singapore Airlines flight hit horror turbulence. Investigators just released their report

The flight from London’s Heathrow to Singapore on May 21, 2024, hit an unexpected updraught, hurling passengers and flight attendants through the cabin.

  • Zach Hope
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
An image released by Myanmar state TV showed Suu Kyi in detention - but when it was taken is unknown.

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest

The legal team of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi plans to meet the detained former leader this weekend.

  • John Mair

She went for six months but stayed for 30 years: The Australian doctor who refused to go home

Helping women on the Thai-Myanmar border survive malaria and childbirth, Rose McGready has faced bullets, bombs and brutal funding cuts – but still finds hope.

  • Erin Handley
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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
Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

As some boycott Myanmar’s flawed election, others hope for change

Voting is almost sure to favour the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls but some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions.

  • Sui-Lee Wee

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
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