Well-paying digital marketing job and a monthly salary of Sh100,000 to boot was all it took to lure the group.

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 ...

Myanmar’s generals have begun staging their long-promised national elections — the first since they seized power in 2021. Their aim is not to restore democracy, but to entrench military rule through ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Dec 24 (Reuters) - Nearly five years after it seized power, Myanmar's military is moving ahead with a multi-phase general election starting on Sunday, despite conflict across the country. Here is a ...

Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity? TPS status protects ...

Noem eliminated Myanmar (formerly Burma) from the list of protected countries, which will take effect January 26, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced. Noem eliminated protections for ...

A UCLA-led team of scientists has uncovered how the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 produced one of the longest and fastest-moving ruptures ever recorded on land ...

Satellite data reveal 513 rare earth mining sites across rivers feeding into the Mekong, Salween and Irrawaddy in Myanmar, including 40 new ones in 2025 — far more than previously estimated. Toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The Myanmar junta makes a military and diplomatic ...

Nearly five years on from Myanmar’s 2020 general election, the country’s struggle over political authority has entered a new phase. The State Administration Council (SAC), the military junta that ...