Aung Zaw

Myanmar, Thailand

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at The Irrawaddy

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Articles

Commentary | Assessing the Oval Office Showdown’s Fallout for Myanmar

1 month ago | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

It was great television. But it was shocking to watch Friday’s shouting match in the Oval Office between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with US Vice President JD Vance, Trump’s attack dog, also present. Many have asked whether it was spontaneous or an ambush. Analysts underscored after the fiasco that the White House was now largely siding with the Kremlin.
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Jan 7, 2025 | thestudentroom.co.uk | Aung Zaw

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Commentary | Min Aung Hlaing Goes to China: From Pariah to Legitimacy… For Now

Nov 5, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

There is no more strategic ambiguity. On the morning of Nov. 5, Myanmar Airways International Flight 779 landed at Kunming International Airport in China’s Yunnan Province. The plane carried Myanmar’s regime leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who surprised everyone in July this year by declaring Chinese New Year a national holiday amid renewed fighting near the border with China.
Family Friend Helps Myanmar Junta Boss Buy Arms From Israel

Sep 20, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

Tun Min Latt, a wealthy Myanmar tycoon in his mid 50s, is close to Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and landed on the United States’ sanctions list in 2023 for supplying the regime with weapons. He is perhaps best known, however, for spending 16 months in detention in Thailand on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. Arrested in Bangkok in September 2022, he appeared in a Thai court in January 2023, shackled by the ankles and denying all charges.
Commentary | The Myanmar Junta’s North Eastern Command Has Fallen: What’s Next?

Aug 5, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

The fall of the Myanmar military’s North Eastern Command in the northern Shan State capital Lashio is a major blow to the military—not to mention a deep humiliation. Analysts are already predicting it is the beginning of the end for the military regime. Established in 1972, the regional command achieved numerous battlefield victories against the Communist Party of Burma and ethnic armies. During the Myanmar military’s decades-long presence in Lashio it built formidable defensive structures.
Son of Former Regime’s ‘Ecotourism Minister’ Now Supplies Arms to Current Junta

Aug 2, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

In Myanmar, relationships between elite businessmen and the generals are often cultivated over decades and bequeathed from one generation to another within families whose business empires eventually grow to encompass multiple industries. A case in point is Sit Taing Aung, a major arms supplier to the junta whose origin story lies in his father Aung Phone’s ties with the previous regime.
The Power Behind the Robe

Jul 21, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

In Myanmar’s Buddhist society, while monks are highly revered as moral authority figures, they have also long been a political force—in British colonial times, during previous military regimes, and continuing with monks’ anti-regime activism today. To give you a better understanding of the Myanmar Buddhist clergy’s history of defying authoritarian regimes, The Irrawaddy presents our October 2007 cover story, reposted here as part of our new section, “Stories That Shaped Us”.
Commentary | The Chinese Way of ‘Peacemaking’ and ‘Democracy-Building’ in Myanmar

Jul 15, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

China invited two high-profile figures from Myanmar to visit recently, with former President Thein Sein flying to Beijing on June 27 and General Soe Win, deputy chief of the current junta, following him a week later, visiting Qingdao. Since Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi received Thein Sein, speculation has been rife and rumors have swirled about the purpose and larger significance of the visits.
Junta Crony | Aung Hlaing Oo: Favored Go-Between for Junta, E. Europe Arms Makers

Jul 12, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Aung Zaw

Among the more frequent customers at the upscale Yangon Gallery restaurant at the foot of the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar’s commercial capital is a soft-spoken and unassuming businessman by the name of Aung Hlaing Oo.The restaurant is one of his favorite venues for holding business meetings, although on occasion he can be seen dining casually with the owner, Aung Pyae Sone—who happens to be the son of junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Alianza profana en Myanmar: los Monjes Mercedes y los Hombres de Verde

Jun 19, 2024 | rebelion.org | Aung Zaw

Fuentes: The Irrawaddy Traducido para Rebelión por Cristina Alonso Si pasea por el centro de Rangún o Mandalay en un futuro no muylejano, se puede sorprender viendo pasar a un monje budista en unMercedes o en un Bentley último modelo. Pero no sesorprenda. Esto es el Myanmar tras el golpe de estado.