Foreign governments should reject the Myanmar junta’s plans to hold elections from late December 2025 through January 2026 ...

Burma's military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April ...

Predictions that this or that event marks a decisive moment in the country’s never-ending civil war miss the point: its power dynamics are far too elastic for that, says Tony Waters.

Myanmar’s planned elections are expected to consolidate military control and exclude key opposition parties, presenting ...

The junta that ousted Burma’s last freely elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now seeking to hold sham polls to entrench its ...

By Shoon Naing and Sudarshan Varadhan (Reuters) -When Thailand cut power supply to Myanmar across its western border this ...

During his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV urged the international community not to forget the people of Myanmar, calling for ...

Growing up in rural Myanmar, Du Wun shunned the jewellery his mother pressed him to wear and dreaded ceremonies where he had to dress in a traditional htamein, a sarong-like garment for women.

The military raided KK Park which is a well-documented cybercrime centre as part of its operations to suppress crimes like online fraud.

[NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has ...