Myanmar’s military-backed party has extended its lead after the second round of voting in the country's election, according ...

Voters in Myanmar went to the polls Sunday for the first phase of the country's first general election in five years, conducted under military government supervision while civil war engulfs much of ...

Myanmar’s junta-led election is not free or fair. Yet despite banned opposition, mass displacement, and severe repression, the staged poll is already granting the military dangerous international ...

An ethnic armed group in Myanmar's Karen State declared it had established an independent republic in the war-torn country in ...

Elections seen widely as a sham are coming to an end, as the junta fights a ruinous civil war and as the main opposition remains barred or jailed. By Richard C. Paddock Myanmar’s military government ...

Myanmar's junta held the second phase of elections on Sunday that democracy watchdogs warn will let the military prolong its rule, opening polling in the constituency of deposed democratic leader Aung ...

The junta’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party has added seats to military’s parliamentary quota to reach governing majority in ongoing election.

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 ...

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 ...

Global prices have hit US$4,719 per ounce amid geopolitical uncertainties, pushing Myanmar’s standard gold to around 10.05 million kyats per tical—more than 4 million kyats above the junta’s official ...

Myanmar's military government has announced its largest-ever seizure of illicit drugs and production equipment.