However, no exact date was given, and the junta has repeatedly pushed back election plans while facing growing battlefield losses. The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to ...

March 8 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday, citing the junta chief, who provided the first ...

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said the votes will be "free and fair," according to the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar. Min added that 53 political parties had already "submitted ...

It would be the first vote since his military junta seized power in a 2021 coup, arresting and imprisoning democratically elected leader Aung San Sung Kyi and making unsubstantiated claims of ...

The head of Myanmar’s military junta arrived in Belarus yesterday for a two-day state visit aimed at shoring up support for his sanctioned and besieged military administration. Arriving from St ...

The junta’s energy minister Ko Ko Lwin and his Russian counterparts have discussed the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal near Dawei deep-sea port in southern Myanmar. He met ...

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Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Grand Kremlin Palace on Tuesday. It was Min Aung Hlaing’s fourth visit to Russia since he seized power in 2021.

MOSCOW - Russia told Myanmar’s leader and military junta chief General Min Aung Hlaing on March 4 that Moscow saw good prospects for expanding cooperation in a range of areas, including ...

Shunned by West, Russia and Myanmar seek closer ties Putin and Min Aung Hlaing talk in Kremlin Moscow supplies Myanmar with military hardware Russia one of first to back junta after 2021 coup ...

The country has however since passed a new constitution and electoral code that critics argue were designed to favour a bid for the presidency by the junta leader. Nguema told the Gabonese people ...