From inside a military base last week, Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing announced who he wanted voters to pick in Sunday ...

Myanmar's military-led administration will hold a multi-phased general election starting on Sunday, even as a civil war rages ...

Fifteen months later, the junta has clawed back some territory and is about to hold the first polls since it seized power in ...

Democracy watchdogs say the junta-run vote is a charade to rebrand the rule of the military. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Civil society groups have long opposed the hydropower project due to its potential to cause flooding and environmental damage and disrupt the livelihoods of people living near the project site ...

Deadly airstrikes, raids and artillery attacks are targeting civilians across the Bamar heartland regions of Sagaing, Mandalay and Magwe.

Min Aung Hlaing has told personnel to train for amphibious assaults and ground combat as the regime escalates indiscriminate attacks on resistance-held territory.

Most analysts see the election as a way for the military, which has governed Myanmar for much of the past six decades, to ...

The battle-hardened Tatmadaw has long dominated politics in Myanmar, which won independence from Britain in 1948, with a string of military chiefs running the country with an iron grip.

Myanmar is heading into its first election since the 2021 coup, but it will be incomplete. With large areas excluded, ...

Myanmar’s junta plans elections to cement power, but limited voting, ongoing conflict and global scepticism cast doubt on ...