Myanmar’s upcoming, tightly controlled “elections” are designed to manufacture legitimacy for the junta, which hopes the mere ...

Facing a widespread election boycott, many overseas missions have extended the period for advance voting, but most expats regard the polls as a sham.

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Nearly five years on from Myanmar’s 2020 general election, the country’s struggle over political authority has entered a new phase. The State Administration Council (SAC), the military junta that ...

YANGON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Myanmar’s ruling party led by Aung San Suu Kyi claimed victory on Monday after a general election seen as a referendum on the first democratic government to lead the country ...

Myanmar’s state media said yesterday (November 27) the government has decided to pardon more than 8,600 prisoners ahead of the general election. Prisons in some parts of the country have begun ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has surged to a ten-year high, the United Nations reported on Wednesday, underscoring how ...

Activists say a designation would boost efforts to hold Myanmar accountable. Three years ago, Myanmar's military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya-- a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority -- with a ...

The Popa langur has been "hiding in plain sight," scientists said. Scientists have discovered a new species of monkeys in central Myanmar with the help of a 100-year-old tissue sample. The primate, ...

Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation has risen to its highest level in a decade from 45,200 hectares to 53,100 hectares - an ...