Critics say the Dec. 28 polls will be neither free nor fair and are an effort by the military to legitimize its rule after ...

They were being hunted after “shouting and scattering leaflets written in opposition to the elections” in Mandalay city. Read ...

Opponents of Myanmar's military rule are calling for a 'silent strike' to boycott upcoming elections, challenging severe ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- A woman in Myanmar has been jailed for 15 days for violating a city ban on non-recyclable plastic bags. The Voice news magazine reported Saturday the Chinese market vendor was the ...

At least 34 patients and medical staff have been killed in a Myanmar military airstrike on a hospital in the western state of ...

YANGON, Myanmar – When Thant Zin Maung decided to return home last October, he told his boys to play their hearts out. “Play as much as you can, because once you’re back you can’t play as much,” he ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A fire followed by several explosions engulfed many state warehouses and neighboring homes, killing at least 16 people and injuring 108 in Myanmar's main city of Yangon on ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar closed off public gardens, parks and a lake in its biggest city Yangon on Monday, hoping to prevent a spike in coronavirus cases during year-end holidays. City officials ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) -- The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone ...

YANGON (Reuters) - There are no skyscrapers in Yangon. No gleaming shopping malls. Certainly no subway system. Its rutted sidewalks are laced with treacherous holes and broken slabs of concrete.