Clampdown seen as response to U.S. pressure, reputational risks

The leaders of the deposed democratic government shouldn’t be in jail at all.

As the national uprising against Myanmar’s coup regime has gained strength, a singular question has hovered over the widening campaign: If this patchwork of ethnic armed groups, deposed elected...

The regime is fighting a losing war, with no viable strategy in the face of an increasingly organized uprising and public outrage over atrocities.

The Sydney economist is no Jason Bourne, but as an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi’s government he was in the junta’s sights soon after the 2021 coup.

International actors seeking to end Myanmar’s civil war make an assumption that on its face appears reasonable: They need to focus on the coup regime for any resolution of the conflict, the thinking...

Myanmar’s February 2021 military coup wiped out almost all the economic progress that had been made under civilian rule. Today, the country’s economy remains completely devastated, with the national...

The exiled former government says drones armed with explosives targeted key buildings in Nay Pyi Taw.

Myanma Economic Bank swiftly transfers officers from headquarters to branches after Washington sanctions two other Myanmar banks.

The Australian Government has today imposed additional targeted sanctions on five entities with direct links to the Myanmar military regime.

For 650 days, Sean Turnell was a prisoner of the military junta that has ruled Myanmar since 2021. Incarcerated in some of Myanmar’s most notorious prisons, isolated, ill-treated, and ultimately...

Over the three years since Myanmar’s military overthrew the county’s elected government, the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) has emerged as a critical component of the junta’s apparatus of public...

Economist Sean Turnell, who was jailed after Aung San Suu Kyi's overthrow. speaks about his experiences and Myanmar's future

Sean Turnell spent 650 days in prison in Myanmar before he was given amnesty and released in November 2022.

Families are fragmented, people are struggling for jobs and education. Essential commodities are scarce, and their prices are skyrocketing.

The ruling military junta has been accused of carrying out the artillery strike in the north-east.

Australian professor Sean Turnell had been advising Myanmar's democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on economic policy when her government was overthrown in a coup.

Releasing all 25,000-plus political detainees from junta jails would pave the way for dialogue to ensure the military steps down from involvement in politics. 

Podcast Episode · Insight Myanmar · 16/01/2024 · 2h 11m

From enforced remittances to escalating drug use, non-conflict factors reveal a war-ravaged country in civil decline.

Myanmar's transition to an open market economy in 2011 led to significant gains in GDP per capita and poverty reduction.

Explore Sean Turnell's tale of endurance, hope, and unyielding determination.

Executives at seven private banks in Myanmar face legal action for allowing their banks to exceed the limit the Central Bank of Myanmar set on the amount of home mortgages they can lend.

Please join the Asia Program for a conversation between Erin Murphy and Sean Turnell, author of An Unlikely Prisoner: How an eternal optimist found hope in Myanmar’s most notorious jail.

The National Unity Government is working to deny income to a regime that is mismanaging the economy.

It was a month shy of Christmas when economist Sean Turnell touched down in Melbourne in 2022 after having spent 650 days locked up in an oppressive, windowless Myanmar jail cell.

People are united to end military dictatorship but international support is needed, Naw Hser Hser says

This Analysis was originally published by the United States Institute of Peace on 11 July 2024.

This episode looks at Myanmar on the third anniversary of the political coup, with a conversation with economist Sean Turnell. We discuss his fabulous new book, The Unlikely Prisoner, where he tells...

The Myanmar people should fight their revolution on their own terms rather than place their trust in an often inept international community.

For 650 days Sean Turnell - an Australian economist and former special economic consultant to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - was jailed in Myanmar on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In his recently-p...

On 9 July 2024 AIIA NSW welcomed Sean Turnell, Honorary Professor of Economics at Macquarie University and Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute. Professor

Beijing’s approach to its troublesome neighbour belies claims that it has an innate mission to promote authoritarianism aboard.