BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, mostly political detainees, and activists being prosecuted or in hiding, state-run media reported ...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta will form a new entity to oversee both the military and civilian administration, a move experts say will allow paramount ruler Min Aung Hlaing to become president ...

Reporter As people trickled into polling stations scattered across Myanmar to vote in the country’s first elections since the 2021 military coup, much of the nation remained consumed by war. On a TV ...

The democracy movement in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar has for decades found powerful champions in the Republican Party. President George W. Bush introduced, then expanded, wide-ranging ...

Home to snowcapped mountains, drought-prone savannas and tropical rainforests, Myanmar hosts tremendous botanical diversity among its richly varied habitats. There are 864 known plant species that are ...

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It is a contest that the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), essentially the military party, is guaranteed to win. A USDP victory is likely to make Senior General Min Aung ...

(The Hague) – International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings in the Myanmar genocide case highlight the need for justice for the ethnic Rohingya, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Global Justice Center ...

Myanmar's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since ...

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten regional health security, experts say. People wait at the Mae Tao Clinic in ...

Nearly five years after a military coup in 2021 unseated its civilian government, Myanmar has become extremely fragmented. A civil war flared after the coup, killing thousands and leaving upward of 18 ...

It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that ...