Myanmar's junta said slightly more than half of eligible voters cast their ballot in the first phase of a three-stage ...

In the lacklustre canvassing ahead of the polls, the USDP was the most visible. Founded in 2010, the year it won an election ...

As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing’s priorities are proving decisive ...

South-east Asia’s eastern continental flank — running from China’s Yunnan province through Myanmar to the Bay of Bengal — is ...

Voters head to the polls on Sunday (December 28) for Myanmar's heavily restricted election that campaigners, Western ...

Behind Thailand’s beauty lies a hidden humanitarian emergency. Refugees fleeing Myanmar are crossing rivers and jungles to ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, deposed by the military months after her National League for Democracy won the ...

Four years after the February 2021 coup, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing presides over a country that no longer functions as a coherent state. The elections are not designed to resolve Myanmar’s crisis ...

Many of the displaced have sought refuge in other parts of the state. Iang is among a group that crossed the border into ...

The UN has warned the military-controlled election is unfolding amid violence, intimidation and arrests. The country’s former ...

Region by region, state by state, The Irrawaddy breaks down the parts of the country where the regime will be able to hold its election—and the picture does not inspire confidence.