War with opposition groups means large areas are excluded from poll, while recent law prohibits criticising a process regarded internationally as a sham ...
The UN has warned the military-controlled election is unfolding amid violence, intimidation and arrests. The country’s former ...
Myanmar’s crucial elections, held under military rule amid civil war, are being widely criticised as a sham. With Aung San Suu Kyi jailed and her party banned, the polls are seen as an attempt to ...
Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a ...
A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...
The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some ...
Myanmar's junta said slightly more than half of eligible voters cast their ballot in the first phase of a three-stage ...
The military is framing the vote as a return to multiparty democracy after ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government four ...
Khin Marlar, 51, who voted at a polling station in Yangon’s Kyauktada township, said she felt she needed to vote because she ...
The political party backed by Myanmar’s ruling military claims it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first ...
Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a ...