BATTLE LINES are changing quickly in Myanmar. Resistance forces—comprising hundreds of factions, many with competing aims—have won a series of victories over the army, which controls the government.

It has been many decades since war came to Mandalay, the last seat of Burmese kings. But on September 3rd a 107mm rocket cracked the pre-dawn calm, striking a residential area west of the old royal ...

A group of Myanmar satirists on Monday racked up a second prison sentence for a performance that criticised the military, a decision the artists said showed the judges were "puppets" of the military.