At the last election in 2020, the ruling party was trounced by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which was dissolved after the coup and did not appear on Sunday's ballots.

YANGON: Myanmar's junta presides over elections starting on Sunday (Dec 28), advertising the vote as a return to democratic normality five years after it mounted a coup that triggered civil war. The vote has been widely slated as a charade to rebrand the rule of the military,

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw and several other members of the media who have been charged under a public order law while covering anti-coup protests in Myanmar are returning to court Wednesday. It is the second round of ...

A released prisoner, center, is welcomed by family members outside the main gate of Insein prison as the head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners to mark the country's traditional New Year Thursday, April 17, 2025 ...

Myanmar Amnesty Kyi Toe, a member of National League for Democracy’s central information committee, speaks after he was released from Insein prison Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Yangon, Myanmar, as part of a mass amnesty granted by the country's military ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Thein Zaw, a journalist for The Associated Press who was arrested more than three weeks ago while covering a protest against the coup in Myanmar, was released from detention on Wednesday. Visibly thinner than before his arrest ...

YANGON, Myanmar – A video of the arrest of Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw as he was photographing Myanmar security forces charging at anti-coup protesters shows him being quickly surrounded and held in a chokehold as handcuffs are placed on him.

Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw has been released from detention in Myanmar three weeks after he was arrested for covering a protest against the country's military coup, the news agency has confirmed. Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw has been ...