Outside polling stations guarded by armed police, an upbeat music video urging people to take part in the election plays on ...

YANGON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 64 people were killed and 341 injured in 180 traffic accidents on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay highway in 2025, according to the highway traffic police force on ...

Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to over 6,100 prisoners to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's ...

Final results won't be known until after two more rounds of voting are completed later in January. It's widely expected that ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...

People are pictured at a trestle bridge over Kandawgyi lake in the early morning in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 3, 2026.

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some ...

Critics have dismissed the elections as a bid to legitimise military rule. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Yangon is introducing smart meters to control the electricity supply, monitor usage and bill customers in a single automated system. If a pilot project is successful, the potential for further ...

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election, the first since the 2021 military coup.