Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...

Nearly five years after the military seized power in a coup, Myanmar on Sunday began polling in a tightly controlled national ...

Critics charge that the election is designed to add a facade of legitimacy to military rule. Final results are expected to be ...

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

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

Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Saturday to halt weeks of fierce border clashes, the worst fighting in years between the ...

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

Myanmar's is holding its first elections since the military seized power five years ago. It could give the military junta more legitimacy.