Myanmar’s election is unlikely to change the reality for more than 1M Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who fled what the UN called ‘genocidal violence’ in Myanmar. Efforts to repatriate the Muslim ...

Yangon, Myanmar – Voters in parts of Myanmar are heading to the polls on Sunday for an election that critics view as a bid by the country’s generals to legitimise military rule, nearly five years ...

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten regional health security, experts say. People wait at the Mae Tao Clinic in ...

A woman casts her advanced ballot at polling station opened at a school in Pyawbwe Township, Mandalay Division, central Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) Myanmar's dominant ...

Jan 13 - Myanmar is holding a general election with three voting phases in what its military government says will usher in a return to civilian rule following a 2021 coup. Following are facts and ...

Myanmar’s junta-held election will not mask the nation’s dire economic condition, experts warn, as civil war drives some of the highest inflation in Asia, power shortages hack at production and the ...

The first day of voting in Myanmar’s three-stage election was held on Sunday, a process decried as a charade with the most popular pro-democracy party banned and up to half the war-torn country unable ...

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected ...

Myanmar's military-backed ‌Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since ...

Dec 27 (Reuters) - Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia's worst humanitarian crises. Already one of Southeast ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections. A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor ...

YANGON -- Voters in Myanmar cast ballots on Sunday in the country's first general legislative elections since 2020, which the military regime sees as a step toward stability but anti-regime forces ...