Shan State Chief Minister defeated in Myanmar parliamentary election

YANGON: The incumbent Shan State Chief Minister Aung Aung (pic), who contested the Taunggyi Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) ...

GLIMPSES: Prepping polling machines ahead of Myanmar's weekend election

YANGON, Myanmar -- Officials from Myanmar's Union Election Commission prepped polling stations on Saturday for the following ...
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Myanmar pro-military party claims huge lead in junta-run poll

At the last election in 2020, the ruling party was trounced by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which was ...
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Myanmar junta accuses rebels of 'malicious' election attacks

Myanmar’s junta on Tuesday accused rebels of “malicious and brutal” attacks on the day and eve of military-run elections, wounding at least five civilians with drones, rockets and bombs. The armed ...

Myanmar’s military junta begins elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...

Weak turnout seen in Myanmar's phased election, first since 2021 coup

In the lacklustre canvassing ahead of the polls, the USDP was the most visible. Founded in 2010, the year it won an election ...

'Unfair election': young voters absent from Myanmar polls; overall tepid turnout

The droves of young people who queued to cast ballots in past elections in Myanmar were conspicuous by their absence from ...