Myanmar will hold its first national election in two decades on November 7. The poll is almost certainly not going to be free and fair: While there may be little outright fraud, the ruling military ...

FILE - In this March 19, 2012 file photo, Aung Zaw, a prominent Myanmar exile who founded the independent Thailand-based Irrawaddy newspaper, speaks during the Media Development Conference in Yangon, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myanmar’s generals have begun staging their long-promised national elections — the first since they seized power in 2021. Their ...

Myanmar needs help. After more than four years of brutal civil war, the country has been hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the strongest it has suffered since 1946. The resulting humanitarian crisis ...

As Myanmar goes to the polls on Saturday in the first of three phases in a tightly controlled election, brightly coloured campaign posters loom over families with children still hacking a living from ...

The European Union will not send observers to Myanmar's upcoming election, its top human rights official said Friday, dismissing the vote as neither free nor fair and urging Southeast Asian nations to ...

BANGKOK (AP) – For years, Myanmar’s former military regime regarded Aye Chan Naing as an enemy of the state, jailing 17 of his reporters and denouncing the exiled news organization he leads as a ...