Jan 11 () - Voters in war-torn Myanmar cast ballots in the second stage of an election dominated so far by a party backed by ...

Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in the country's first general election since a takeover that installed a ...

They persevered despite profound challenges facing nation’s education system, says director of Catholic institution ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election, the first since the 2021 military coup. International observers and opponents of military rule call the vote ...

Prominent regime figures secured seats as opposition candidates alleged irregularities and advance-vote manipulation.

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions.

YANGON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 64 people were killed and 341 injured in 180 traffic accidents on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay highway in 2025, according to the highway traffic police force on ...

People are pictured at a trestle bridge over Kandawgyi lake in the early morning in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 3, 2026.

A deadly earthquake on March 28 collapsed buildings in central Myanmar but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. An AFP reporter confirmed the Shwedagon ...

A micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) market festival, together with music performances, was held in Yangon on Friday ...

At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...