Southeast Asia’s top diplomats have met to push a peace plan for Myanmar’s civil war and finalize a nonaggression pact with ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy.

Zaw Win Myint and Myo Moe Aung have been dispatched as envoys to Russia and China as punishment for military popularity and scam ties, respectively, say analysts ...

Military-proxy party claims 80 percent of constituencies overall amid complaints of irregularities and international condemnation.

Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party has claimed victory in the country's first election since ...

As of Wednesday the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 20 years in detention in Myanmar, five of them since her government was overthrown by a military coup in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted from office and arrested in 2021, after the military sized power [Getty Images] As of Wednesday the ...

Even the mildest public criticism of Myanmar’s military rulers is punished with ferocious jail terms. But in private, hostility to the army and the election is widespread and bitter. Myanmar heads to ...

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Myanmar’s military rulers have ordered the release of more than 6,000 prisoners to mark the country’s Independence Day. While families rushed to wait outside prisons on Sunday to see if their loved ...

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 ...