The absence of an independent and trusted media within Myanmar creates a febrile environment for misinformation and ...

Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned ...

With large parts of the country under opposition control amid an ongoing civil war, analysts warn that election logistics could prove challenging.

A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least 12 people, witnesses of ...

Eight years ago, Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims ...

Myanmar was under military rule for five decades after a 1962 coup, and Suu Kyi’s five years as leader had been its most democratic period, despite continued use of repressive colonial-era laws.

Myanmar has had a long and tortuous post-independence history. But rather than going all the way back to 1948 when it became independent, let's consider the last decade. "The coup comes on top of ...

Myanmar, which was formerly Burma until 1989, when the State Law and Order Restoration Council changed the country’s official name, has, for almost two months, been the site of political upheaval, a ...

Three weeks before Myanmar's military commander took power in a coup, he met the Chinese government's top diplomat in an exchange that pointed to potential support as Myanmar faces the prospect of ...

Myanmar's economy is already suffering due to COVID-19. Analysts say an imposition of broad economic sanctions in response to the coup could harm the country and result in greater Chinese influence.

Myanmar urgently needs vaccines and an equitable economic recovery (not a coup),” he tweeted. Times staff writer Tracy Wilkinson in Washington contributed to this report.

Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days on Sunday killing eight people, media reported, three months after a coup plunged the country into ...