Regime spokesman Zaw Min Tun rejected the idea that the vote aims to entrench military rule, while also hinting at a leadership role for junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.

Also this week, the regime formed an anti-scam panel to mask its complicity, committed a major crime against humanity weeks before election, and vowed to crush ethnic resistance.

BANGKOK — Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-government, on Monday also took the position of acting president to replace the holder of that post who was unable to perform his ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit, becoming only the second foreign leader to visit the Southeast Asian country since it came under military rule in ...

BANGKOK — The head of Myanmar’s military government will pay an official visit this week to China, the embattled Southeast Asian nation’s most important international ally, for several regional ...

Myanmar's military chief has used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by the end of the year and call on opposition groups fighting the army to join in ...

BANGKOK — The head of Myanmar's military government embarked Tuesday on an official visit to China, the embattled Southeast Asian nation’s most important international ally, for several regional ...

(Reuters) -Just days after the United Nations accused his military of brutally driving what eventually became 1 million Rohingya out of the country, Myanmar's then-army chief Min Aung Hlaing declared ...

A figurehead leader, he had little real power but did endorse measures that allowed the country’s generals to extend their rule after a 2021 coup. By Sui-Lee Wee The military government hopes ...

BANGKOK — As Myanmar’s military put on an annual show of strength Monday, its top leader told its assembled ranks they need to take decisive action against those fighting army rule of the country.

With her health failing and an information vacuum around Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her son worries ...