The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.

Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim ...

Voting was held Sunday in the final round of Myanmar's general election, concluding a monthlong process widely denounced as illegitimate.

The military-backed party claims to have won 90 per cent of the available seats so far in a poll activists have derided as ‘engineered’.

A USDP official claims the party won 15 of 16 Yangon lower house seats, including Kawhmu, after the election’s second stage.

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has not ruled out serving as the new government's president Myanmar's dominant pro-military party ...

Voting concluded in Myanmar's month-long election on Sunday, with the dominant pro-military party on course for landslide victory in a junta-run poll critics say will only prolong the army's grip ...

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been siloed in military detention since a 2021 coup. Still, her absence looms large over junta-run polls the ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – will she live to see freedom? - COMMENT: After two decades of confinement, ...

The United Nations, rights groups and the UK have denounced the polls as a sham exercise to perpetuate the military's hold.