Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is a contest that the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP ...

Jan 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government will release 6,186 prisoners under an amnesty marking Independence Day, state media said on Saturday, a week after a multi-stage general election began ...

FILE PHOTO: Election Commission officials count ballots at a polling station during Myanmar's general election in Yangon, Myanmar, December 28, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Jan 4 (Reuters) - ...

Voters in military-controlled areas of Myanmar headed to the polls Sunday in a phased election largely considered a sham and expected to favor the junta-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Myanmar held relatively free and fair elections in 2020, dominated by Aung ...

Hong Kong — The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong residential complex climbed to 128 on Friday as more bodies were found in the blackened towers, authorities said. Meanwhile, ...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested three men from a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 94 people and left hundreds of others missing ...

At least 36 people were killed and hundreds are missing after a fire engulfed several high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district Wednesday. John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said ...

The Trump administration said on Monday it is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar in the United States, arguing they can safely return to the war-torn Southeast Asian country and ...