Myanmar’s junta called for ex-civil servants who quit their jobs in protest over the coup five years ago to report back to work, pledging to remove absent state employees from “blacklists” on Sunday.

On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Myanmar’s military completed phased elections guaranteeing parliamentary control after ousting elected leader Aung ...

Myanmar’s military proxy party has claimed a predictable victory in an election widely condemned as a sham, a result likely to hardwire the junta into power indefinitely. For millions of ...

One devastating fire, two very different movies.

After half a decade of bloody fighting, a resurgent military faces a determined but splintered armed resistance. Only two years ago, reports about Myanmar were rife with speculation that the Tatmadaw, ...

YANGON – He was burned with lit cigarettes, forced to hold a large block of ice with his bare hands, severely beaten and nearly raped. These are just some of the inhumane abuses Myanmar journalist ...

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing is widely expected to take on the country's presidency after the highly controversial elections. Polling stations opened across Myanmar on Sunday for the final ...

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 ...

YANGON – A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Jan 27 against the country’s prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy. U Chit Myo Htike, known by his stage name Phoe Chit, ...

Myanmar's new administration is expected to be launched as early as April. But fighting in the country shows no signs of abating five years after a military coup. On February 1, 2021, Myanmar's ...