SNDP leader Sai Aik Pao said that without the election, Myanmar will not see a civilian government, and the military will remain in power.
Parties registered with regime cast doubt on a planned poll already widely condemned as a sham to entrench military rule.
Ma Thae Thae Soe had been looking forward to her son’s shinbyu or ordination as a novice monk. Instead it became a day for funeral rites.
A military defector says the regime wants civilians to pressure resistance groups into giving up their arms.
Rebel groups launched eight simultaneous attacks on regime positions in Mandalay, which have left a station on China’s oil and gas pipelines undefended.
Red tape is preventing even people who could take rebuilding their homes into their own hands from making any progress, residents say.
Paid a slave wage for making trainers for global brands and ignored by the authorities, workers at Taiwanese company Tsang Yih in Yangon decided to take matters into their own...
Kamigumi, the Sumitomo Corporation and Toyota say they are withdrawing from the Thilawa port project in Yangon.
Kyaw Zwar Minn, who was appointed by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, has refused to leave his ambassadorial residence in London as demanded by the junta.
The junta used widely banned cluster munitions to strike a Sagaing Region school, killing 22 children aged between seven and 16 and two teachers.
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