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Myanmar’s weak economy is being brutally exposed to the fuel crisis, with farmers unable to fill up tractors to work their fields and a fertiliser shortage caused by the throttling of the Strait of Hormuz threatening foo...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected president on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected govern...

Myanmar opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years on Monday following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a firm grasp on pow...

Myanmar drivers have been flocking to petrol stations since Tuesday amid concerns over potential fuel shortages, forcing some vendors to limit or suspend sales, with long queues reported in many parts of the country incl...

New Chinese-run scam compounds are rapidly expanding across territory controlled by Myanmar junta-aligned militias south of Myawaddy in Karen State, even as the regime continues to promote its supposed crackdown on onlin...

The UN human rights agency on Friday called on governments to clamp down on scam centres, which have mushroomed in Southeast Asia and where hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked into forced labour.

China has executed four members of the Bai family mafia, one of the notorious dynasties that ran scam centres in Myanmar, state media report.

Myanmar's military-backed party has completed a sweeping victory in the country's three-phase general election, state media said, cementing an outcome long expected after a tightly controlled political process held durin...

More than 10,000 people have been displaced by ongoing clashes around Penwegon town along the old Yangon–Mandalay Road in eastern Bago Region, witnesses estimate.

Polls have opened in Myanmar for the third and final round of a controversial general election, with a military-backed party on course for a landslide win amid a raging civil war.

The Myanmar junta bombed a funeral in Kaung Jar village, Bhamo Township, on Thursday evening, killing 22 mourners and wounding dozens more, according to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which controls the area....

Campaigners, Western diplomats and the UN's rights chief have all condemned the phased month-long vote, citing a ballot stacked with military allies and a stark crackdown on dissent.

At least 34 people have died and dozens more are injured after air strikes from Myanmar's military hit a hospital in the country's west on Wednesday night, according to ground sources.

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar staged a joint protest on Wednesday calling on people to stay indoors to show they are boycotting elections scheduled for late this month.

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says

A major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar announced Wednesday it signed a cease-fire with the military following China-mediated talks, easing months of intense fighting in the country’s northeast near the Chinese border.

Political parties in military-run Myanmar on Tuesday kicked off their election campaigns, two months ahead of scheduled national polls that are widely seen as an effort to confer legitimacy on the military’s 2021 seizure...

Myanmar’s ruling junta has raided one of the country’s most infamous cyber scam centers near the Thai border, seizing Starlink satellite internet equipment, state media reported on Monday. The operation took place after...

At least 24 people were killed and 47 wounded while protesting against Myanmar's military government after an army motorised paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile told BBC...

Over 10,000 Karen villagers were forced to flee their homes as regime troops recaptured key positions in Myawaddy on the Thai border and other parts of southern Karen State this month. The displaced are now in urgent nee...