Myanmar’s planned late-December elections are unfolding in what UN rights officials describe as an atmosphere of fear, ...

A junta spokesman slammed the Japanese prime minister’s comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo had not shown remorse for its ...

Myanmar's junta said Wednesday it is hunting 10 activists who staged an anti-election protest, pursuing them under laws punishing organised dissent against the poll with up to a decade in ...

The ruling military junta of Myanmar (Burma) carried out an airstrike in the country’s northern Kachin State over the weekend, killing at least eighty people, according to AP. The attack... Tom ...

A woman prays at a Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon on Jan. 29 on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) Over the past four years, Myanmar has ...

Rights monitors warn the junta is crushing pre-poll dissent and analysts describe the vote as a ploy to disguise ongoing military rule.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Even before the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar and parts of Thailand today ...

A rescue worker who arrived on the scene 15 minutes after the strike said seven people were killed on the spot and 11 others ...

Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's democratically elected government. They sent tanks into the streets and detained the country's president, as well as ...