Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been siloed in military detention since a 2021 coup, but her absence looms large ...

Recently, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Myanmar, Tom Andrews, criticised the election that is underway. They ...

Myanmar is voting in an election widely dismissed as a sham, with major political parties dissolved, many of their leaders jailed, and as much as half the ...

Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a civil war. Critics argue the election is a facade to ...

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials from Myanmar's Union Election Commission prepped polling stations on Saturday for the following day's election. In these images from photographer Thein Zaw at one ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy ...