Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with the leader of Myanmar’s junta, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, in Tianjin, China, Aug. 30, 2025 (pool photo by Andres Martinez Casares via AP). After almost five years of ...

Junta says turnout in first vote in five years is 52%, which observers have described as low compared to past polls Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development party (USDP) is leading ...

A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar’s heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last 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 ...

YANGON – In August 2024, Myanmar’s ruling military junta was losing ground fast. A rebel offensive had swept down from the Chinese border and was threatening Mandalay, the country’s second-largest ...

The US government is stripping thousands of Myanmar nationals of their temporary immigration status citing planned elections in the civil war-torn country as evidence of an improving situation.

Myanmar's currency, the kyat, has lost more than 60% of its value since the beginning of September, in a collapse that has driven up food and fuel prices, within an economy that has tanked since a ...

YANGON: Myanmar's junta said on Friday (Oct 10) that Malaysia would send observation teams to its long-delayed election, as it battles multiple rebel forces opposed to the poll. A civil war has ...

Hollie McKay is a Cipher Brief contributing writer, war crimes investigator, and author of "Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield". She previously worked as an investigative ...

Myanmar's ruling military junta said on Sunday a colonial-era bridge that was once the world's highest railway trestle had been "bombed and destroyed" by anti-coup armed groups.

MyanmarGPT Movement is a movement for Artificial Intelligence in Myanmar. The Movement was initiated by releasing MyanmarGPT, a Burmese language GPT in 2023. After the release of the first open-source ...