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 ...

A landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against minority Muslim Rohingya has opened at the United Nations' top court. The outcome will have repercussions beyond the Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

The amnesty comes while Myanmar marks 78 years of indenpendence from Britain and as the junta stages its first election since the 2021 coup. The Myanmar junta will release more than 6,000 prisoners to ...

Myanmar Elections 2025 LIVE Updates: Myanmar cast vote for the first time in nearly five years, after a military coup in 2021 led to a civil war in the country. Many called the elections a "sham", ...

Polls have closed in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup. The heavily restricted ...

Yangon, Myanmar – Voters in parts of Myanmar are heading to the polls on Sunday for an election that critics view as a bid by the country’s generals to legitimise military rule, nearly five years ...

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 ...

Since the February 2021 coup that returned the centre of Myanmar to military rule, much debate has revolved around whether the military junta might collapse. The question has been whether the exiled ...

Since Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in 2021, it has ruled with devastating violence. Junta forces have bombed civilians in a bid to suppress rebellious ...

Among Myanmar’s diverse demographic groups, the young generation has been one of the most adversely affected cohorts of the 2021 military coup. Heightened insecurity, the crippled economy, shrinking ...