Tag: Myanmar

Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in wid...

Jan 29, 2026

Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cemen...

Pacts, patronage and fear: how Myanmar's junta chief holds on to power

Pacts, patronage and fear: how Myanmar's junta chief ho...

Jan 13, 2026

Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely dec...

Jan 11, 2026

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the abs...

Myanmar junta presses ahead with tightly controlled election as critics warn of democratic sham

Myanmar junta presses ahead with tightly controlled ele...

Dec 28, 2025

Myanmar to hold third and final election round on Jan 25, commission says

Myanmar to hold third and final election round on Jan 2...

Dec 26, 2025

Myanmar’s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to know

Myanmar’s first election since the 2021 coup: everythin...

Dec 24, 2025

The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but...

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that ...

Sep 8, 2025

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the n...

‘Used as pawns’ and abandoned again: Rohingya refugees trapped between a war-torn homeland and a world that’s moved on

‘Used as pawns’ and abandoned again: Rohingya refugees ...

Aug 28, 2025

Historic Myanmar bridge destroyed in fighting

Historic Myanmar bridge destroyed in fighting

Aug 25, 2025

The renowned Gokteik bridge was bombed on Sunday, with the ruling military junta...

Singapore foreign minister hails Anwar’s direct diplomacy on Myanmar as Asean pushes for peace

Singapore foreign minister hails Anwar’s direct diploma...

May 25, 2025