CNN’s Ivan Watson speaks to voters and candidates in Yangon as Myanmar completes the first phase of polling in a ...

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, ...

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some ...

Final results won't be known until after two more rounds of voting are completed later in January. It's widely expected that ...

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

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election, the first since the 2021 military coup.

Myanmar's military rulers are holding a general election in phases starting Dec. 28 amid the country's civil war. The head of ...

The Trump administration has joined a small number of countries—including China and Russia—in backing the vote, which is ...

Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.

Myanmar has been hammered by a conflict triggered by a 2021 coup in which the military ousted an elected civilian government ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...