Rebels and local media reports say that a military airstrike this week on a village in Myanmar sheltering displaced people from the northern township of Bhamo killed 21 people.

Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a crumbling nation.

NAYPYIDAW — Voting was underway Sunday in the third and final phase of Myanmar’s general elections, with polling taking place in 63 townships nationwide, state media reported. Polling stations opened in the morning and were set to close at 4 p.

The death toll in Myanmar from Friday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake has risen to 1,644, the AFP news agency quoting the ruling military junta has said. The quake rocked central Myanmar’s city of Mandalay around midday local time, causing extensive damage ...

Here's why Philippine Foreign Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro's visit to Naypyidaw gets Myanmar wrong — and weakens ASEAN's credibility

Myanmar’s junta-led election is not free or fair. Yet despite banned opposition, mass displacement, and severe repression, the staged poll is already granting the military dangerous international

Dramatic video showed rescuers searching the partially collapsed remains of a building before the woman was carried out on a stretcher. Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video as Naypyidaw from the buildings, the road layout and the entrance ...

Critics say the visit may be viewed as the bloc’s new chair endorsing a controversial junta-led election in Myanmar.