BANGKOK (AP) — The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma. Relief efforts ...

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.

Analysts overlook the novel political linkages between the country’s resistance groups, and their determination to build a federal democracy. As the military junta in Myanmar continues to face ...

SINGAPORE — The international condemnations poured in swiftly over Monday’s sentencing of onetime democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in military-ruled Myanmar. But in reality, the 76-year-old ...

WHEN TANKS rumbled into Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, on February 1st, the man who sent them there, Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, tried to offer the public reassurance.

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has been accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen children, ...

Myanmar military tanks are driven during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Monday, March 27, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo Editor’s Note: This is ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On Monday morning Myanmar time, the Myanmar military staged a coup, its first coup ...

Exclusive-'For All I Know, She Could Be Dead' Says Son of Myanmar's Suu Kyi By John Geddie TOKYO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - With her health failing and an information vacuum around Myanmar's detained ‌former ...

On Feb. 1, 2021, the military in Myanmar detained senior members of the civilian government after claiming the country’s November 2020 elections were fraudulent. Mass protests have continued unabated ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar plans to hold its first multi-party election in two decades on November 7, polls the United States and several European nations have expressed concerns about and that ...

Protesters in Yangon have in recent days gathered near the imposing red doors of the Chinese embassy in the city, denouncing China for what they say is its support of this month’s military coup in ...