In a major study undertaken in late 2024, the BBC assessed the junta only had full control of 21% of Myanmar’s territory ... received funding from the Australian government for Southeast ...

The election also brings the risk of more violence as the junta and its opponents push to increase their control of territory in Myanmar, where the widening conflict has left the economy in ...

Myanmar's junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021. "We are planning to hold the election ...

Speaking in Belarus, one of Myanmar’s few remaining allies, he said 53 political parties had already submitted their lists to participate. However, no exact date was given, and the junta has ...

YANGON: Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday (March 8), citing the junta chief, who provided the first specific ...

Karen Border Force Guard (BGF) commander Saw Chit Thu told Thailand’s The Nation in a rare interview this week his Myanmar junta-affiliated ... Mechelle Moore, an Australian rescue worker ...

Myanmar’s junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1 | Photo Credit: STRINGER Myanmar’s long-promised general elections will take ...

Myanmar’s military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday (March 8, 2025), citing the junta chief, who provided the first specific ...

"We are planning to hold the election in December 2025 or ... by January 2026," General Min Aung Hlaing was quoted as saying in the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar published Saturday.

Under heavy pressure from Beijing, Myanmar's junta and allied militias have taken action to curb the centres. The "crackdown" has so far involved armed uniformed men coming to the sites and asking ...

YANGON: Myanmar's acting president has taken medical leave and transferred his duties to military chief Min Aung Hlaing (pic), the junta said on Monday (July 22). Myanmar has been in turmoil since ...