The Irrawaddy

Advance ballots, uncontested seats and dissolved opposition parties tilt early results sharply in favor of the regimes proxy party.

Resistance claims at least 40 regime troops killed in simultaneous attacks across three townships in Bamar heartland.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Lazaros meeting with Min Aung Hlaing risks legitimizing sham elections and eroding ASEANs leverage.

With an eye to securing the presidency for himself, Min Aung Hlaing has reshuffled senior posts in the military with a younger generation of trusted aides and associates.

Beijing shifts its crackdown from scam compounds to the tycoons at the top, as public anger and geopolitical concerns mount.

As the generals prepare another staged transition, Myanmar enters a familiar phase of endurance rather than hope.

Stuffed ballots, late arrivals, nobody watching the count: the list of complaints from civilian parties contesting the polls is long, but the election body is sitting on its hands.

Beijing has doubled down on support for a regime reviled at home, ignoring lessons from historic humiliations in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere.

Clashes have flared up post-election around the state capital and the strategic port with its Chinese megaprojects as the Arakan Army renews attacks on the military regime.

US-indicted tycoon linked to regional scam compounds was detained in Cambodia after months of international pressure

Senior junta officials and military-backed USDP figures will be among the candidates in Sundays voting across 12 states and regions.

Rakhine rebels spilling into neighboring Bago region en route to the juntas ordnance factories on the banks of the Irrawaddy River overran a regime column near Point 666.

Decisions made in Beijing to dramatically alter the flow of rivers originating in China have devastating consequences for nations downstream, warns Chandu Doddi.

Early ballots and proportional representation saw the junta-backed party turn voting in a handful of townships into control of the two state legislatures.

Trump claims control over Venezuelan oil as interim leader Delcy Rodriguez denies any foreign power is running the country.

On the eve of the election, our editors predicted that the juntas proxy USDP would sweep the board and all the other parties would be annihilated by the military organizing the sham polls.

Several parties say advance votes swung results in favor of the USDP, echoing irregularities seen in the widely discredited 2010 poll.

Min Aung Hlaing boasts of building a world-class fighting force as his militarys reputation for atrocities against civilians grows.

Resistance fighters push into Katha, a strategic Irrawaddy River town offering leverage over battles in Kachin and northern Shan states.

The USDP won 89 of 102 Lower House seats in the first phase of the much-criticized election, according to an AFP tally of official results.

Washingtons statement on Myanmar Independence Day flooded with calls to arrest dictator for war crimes in five-year military campaign targeting civilians.

From an unpopular new government and ceasefires to economic strain and regional pressure, another difficult year no doubt awaits Myanmar.

The military-backed USDP trounced Dr. Aye Maungs Arakan Front and Ba Sheins Rakhine Nationalities Party in the three western-state enclaves still under regime control.

After months of threats and pressure tactics, the United States on Saturday bombed Venezuela and toppled authoritarian left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro, who was seized to face trial in New York.

Myanmar's junta said on Sunday it would release more than 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country's independence day.