For 35 years, Myanmar’s elections have followed a familiar pattern: real victories for voters are rejected, a free and fair election is impossible and voter turnout irrelevant.

South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims ...

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten ...

Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition ...

(Sai Aung MAIN/AFP/AFP) Myanmar's junta said Wednesday it was seeking to prosecute more than 200 people for "disruption" of upcoming military-run elections, wielding new legislation rights monitors ...

As Myanmar's military loses ground, Rakhine state plunges into isolation, ethnic strife, and a humanitarian crisis that threatens regional stability. Rakhine state in western Myanmar plays a key role ...

Myanmar’s military has acknowledged it conducted an air strike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine that killed 33 people, whom it accused of being armed members of opposition groups and ...

After Myanmar’s military declared the country’s first post-coup general elections to the public in May 2023, the Myanmar military has since detailed the elections and the country’s future post-coup ...

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MRAUK U: A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, aid workers said on Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections. The junta has increased air ...

At least 33 people, including patients, have been killed, and about 70 wounded after an air strike by the country’s military government hit a major hospital in western Myanmar, according to a rebel ...