BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, mostly political detainees, and activists being prosecuted or in hiding, state-run media reported ...

On February 13, Myanmar’s military junta ordered the head of Timor-Leste’s Embassy in Yangon to leave the country within seven days. The expulsion comes after Timorese authorities opened legal ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar ’s military government ordered East Timor ’s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal ...

Myanmar’s junta has expelled Timor-Leste’s top diplomat after the Southeast Asian island accepted a legal case against the military regime for alleged war crimes. Timor-Leste’s investigation ...

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate. The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city ...

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Myanmar’s generals have begun staging their long-promised national elections — the first since they seized power in 2021. Their aim is not to restore democracy, but to entrench military rule through ...

Myanmar's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since ...

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected ...

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten regional health security, experts say. People wait at the Mae Tao Clinic in ...

A UCLA-led team of scientists has uncovered how the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 produced one of the longest and fastest-moving ruptures ever recorded on land ...

As the next summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nears, Myanmar and the region are facing yet another inflection point. The country’s illegitimate military junta is pushing ...