Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, ...
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won ‌a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country’s president, formalizing his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an ...
In Myanmar’s military-controlled capital, Naypyidaw—an isolated city of more than 800,000 where oversize government compounds are separated by almost-empty highways—drivers stand in line for hours ...
Community-based surveys in northern Myanmar have documented a small population of white-bellied herons, one of the world’s most threatened bird species. Experts say the sightings reaffirm the conflict ...
Myanmar's spiralling rights and humanitarian crises risk getting "much worse" as global attention focuses on the Middle East war and aid dwindles further, the top United Nations expert on the Asian ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, mostly political detainees, and activists being prosecuted or in hiding, state-run media reported ...
On February 13, Myanmar’s military junta ordered the head of Timor-Leste’s Embassy in Yangon to leave the country within seven days. The expulsion comes after Timorese authorities opened legal ...
With the third phase of Myanmar’s multi-stage election that finished on 25 January, its military junta wants a positive start to 2026. The junta’s goals over the coming months are to reassure fellow ...
On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Myanmar’s military completed phased elections guaranteeing parliamentary control after ousting elected leader Aung ...
YANGON, Myanmar — The election that is expected to assure the continued grip of Myanmar’s military generals over the isolated Southeast Asian country wasn’t engineered in its fortified capital but in ...
Reporter As people trickled into polling stations scattered across Myanmar to vote in the country’s first elections since the 2021 military coup, much of the nation remained consumed by war. On a TV ...