Myanmar's parliament convened on Monday for the first time since a 2021 military coup, AFP journalists saw, packed with pro-junta lawmakers elected in a poll choreographed by the top brass. The ...

An illegal saw mill at Tamu in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region. Credit: Special Arrangement Timber smuggling from Myanmar to India has escalated with long-term adverse consequences for the region, which is ...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — 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 ...

The meeting follows a controversial multi-phase election that was dominated by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. Myanmar’s parliament met yesterday for the first time since ...

Myanmar’s military leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing attends the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand, April 4, 2025. (Thailand Foreign Affairs Ministry photo via AP). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new ...

Traffic in Yangon moves much faster on even-numbered dates. That is when, as a result of fuel-saving measures introduced this month, only cars with licence plates beginning 2, 4, 6 or 8 can drive ...

March 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar's new parliament selected the chairman of ‌the army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party as speaker of ⁠the lower house on Monday. Khin Yi, a retired brigadier ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Thailand have become collateral damage from the civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, turning to drugs as supply through the area rockets on the back of the ...

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Myanmar's spiralling rights and humanitarian crises risk getting "much worse" as global attention focuses on the Middle East war and aid dwindles further, the top United Nations expert on the Asian ...