The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

There are moments when the fate of a single human being reveals the moral condition of the world. Myanmar has reached that moment — and so have we. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace laureate and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing (C) in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar (STR) (STR/AFP ...

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been siloed in military detention since a 2021 coup, but her absence looms large over junta-run polls the generals are touting as a return to democracy. The ...

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

Myanmar military-linked party leads first phase of polls Junta says turnout is 52%; thin compared to past polls Poll excludes opposition leaders with Aung San Suu Kyi detained Jan 02(Reuters) - ...

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. By Richard C. Paddock Myanmar’s military ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone ...

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 ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar's military government granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced other inmates' sentences Sunday to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain ...

Hundreds of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, a week after the start of an ...