From tour guide to tycoon, Aung Myo Min Din’s rise tracks Myanmar’s early 2000s tourism boom—and the military ties, land seizures and controversies that followed.

Some 13.1 million of 24.2 million eligible voters cast their ballots, a junta spokesman said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Myanmar’s incoming legislature will be dominated by retired officers, junta ministers and ultranationalists after the USDP’s sweeping election victory.

Excitement filled the air in Yangon as 36 teams gathered at the base of Shwedagon Pagoda to take part in the annual ...

Now in its 18th year at Shwedagon Pagoda, the annual Htamane-making contest has been held. The festival celebrated Myanmar's cultural and religious heritage while uniting communities through the ...

Myanmar''s military-aligned union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) said it has won the country''s first election since the junta seized power in 2021. Many observers are calling the election a ...

Myanmar's dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule.

(MENAFN) Polling stations across 100 townships in Myanmar opened Sunday as the military regime advanced its staged electoral process, the Irrawaddy newspaper confirmed. Military leader Min Aung Hlaing ...

Major outbreaks of infectious diseases have been a recurring problem in Myanmar since the country’s military seized power nearly five years ago, triggering a civil war that the United Nations ...

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