The National Unity Government was formed as a pro-democracy alternative to the junta. But, critics say, it has failed to ...

Meth production and opium poppy cultivation are growing and expanding in Myanmar, according to the UN, with many armed groups using the profits to buy weapons.New data on opium and methamphetamine ...

Iranian ships falsifying their journeys deliver jet fuel, urea to Myanmar junta, circumventing sanctions in both countries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People line up to vote at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election in Yangon on December 28, 2025. - ...

Myanmar’s military junta has billed the election as a return to democracy. International observers, however, have widely ...

Many internationals now assume that Myanmar’s political future will ultimately be determined by Beijing. This is a profound ...

Despite predictions of their demise, Myanmar’s generals have survived for nearly five years due to substantial support from fellow authoritarian regimes.

Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations said Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. War-ravaged ...

The first of three phases of voting has finished in Myanmar, in an election widely dismissed as a "sham", with major political parties dissolved, leaders jailed and as much as half the country not ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy.

Opium poppy buds at an illegal field in Hopong, a town in Myanmar's Shan State, in 2019 [File: Ye Aung Thu/AFP] Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing ...

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...