However, no exact date was given, and the junta has repeatedly pushed back election plans while facing growing battlefield losses. The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to ...

March 8 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday, citing the junta chief, who provided the first ...

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said the votes will be "free and fair," according to the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar. Min added that 53 political parties had already "submitted ...

It would be the first vote since his military junta seized power in a 2021 coup, arresting and imprisoning democratically elected leader Aung San Sung Kyi and making unsubstantiated claims of ...

The head of Myanmar’s military junta arrived in Belarus yesterday for a two-day state visit aimed at shoring up support for his sanctioned and besieged military administration. Arriving from St ...

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