Election laws place strict limitations on candidates for Myanmar’s hluttaw, or parliament. Myanmar has a bicameral legislature consisting of the Amyotha Hluttaw (House of Nationalities ...

Myanmar junta efforts to persuade three pro-resistance ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) to support its election plan came to ...

Last Thursday, Myanmar ... November election approaches he will likely come under increasing pressure, along with the rest of his USDP Party, from Ma Ba Tha to enact them into law.

No matter who emerges as Thailand’s next prime minister, the powerful Thai military has the most influence over relations ...

YANGON, April 3 (dpa): The Myanmar military government marked Armed ... continue to act against opponents but did not say when elections promised following the February 2021 coup would be held.

It has been more than two years since Myanmar's army staged a coup. The country has since descended into a dangerous spiral of violence, dire econom ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that there is no democracy, prosperity or future for the country if ...

BANGKOK--Martial law was declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar on Thursday ... a move that sets back plans for a general election that had been expected in August.

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s state election commission announced it is prosecuting ... However, the commission’s notice, dated Monday, did not specify which laws would be used to prosecute the accused.

YANGON, July 16 (AP): Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied the accusations in an election fraud charge ... and 11 counts under the Anti-Corruption Law, with each count punishable by ...

Myanmar’s junta – the military group that ... Junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing also said multiparty elections would be held “as the people desire”. He did not provide a timeline ...

Journalist Hmue Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun poses for a photo in Yangon, Myanmar, in January 2021. On Friday, May 26, 2023, a ...