Soe Win extended Chinese New Year greetings and thanked China for its earthquake relief assistance and support for Myanmar's peace process, adding that the country looks forward to deepening ...

The rhythmic beat of drums echoed across Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday evening as red lanterns swayed ...

Myanmar’s military-backed party has won the recent election, according to final official figures. The Union Solidarity and ...

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...

Singapore is piloting the world’s first sustainable aviation fuel levy. It will slightly raise prices for airline passengers ...

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, turned 80 last year, and last Friday reached a cumulative total of 20 years in detention. The question facing her, the illegal military junta that now ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the people of Myanmar "face a deepening crisis", five years after the country's democratically-elected government was overthrown by the military. The coup, ...

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Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections. Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting has not been possible in ...

Myanmar has begun holding a general election that the international community has widely condemned as "a sham." Opposition figures in exile have called on a boycott as they say the military-led ...

Despite her absence from public view, Aung San Suu Kyi still casts a long shadow over Myanmar. The election is expected to secure the military generals’ hold on an increasingly isolated country that ...