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Myanmar's main pro-military party won the parliamentary seat of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections run under the junta's rule, a party official told AFP on Monday.
Kawhmu, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta opened polls in the second phase of elections on Sunday, AFP journalists saw, continuing a vote democracy watchdogs say is letting the military prolong its rule in a civilian guise.
Malaysia's 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad will not undergo surgery for a hip fracture sustained from a fall at home due to his age, his son said Wednesday.
Nine countries have dispatched observers for the first phase of Myanmar’s elections, which begins today, according to a diplomatic source.
As the Myanmar junta concludes the first day of its planned three-phase general election, international media, academics and Myanmar’s independent media have raised questions about its legitimacy.
A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war.
China’s Foreign Ministry special envoy for Asian affairs, Deng Xijun, will visit Thailand tomorrow as part of shuttle diplomacy aimed at easing border tensions, an informed diplomatic source said.
As 2025 draws to a close, Myanmar’s junta government is moving ahead with plans for a general election. Many observers say, though, that this highlights, rather than resolves, the country’s deep-seated political crisis.
Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing.
ASEAN foreign ministers will convene a special meeting on December 22 to discuss Thai–Cambodian tensions, according to the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Wisma Putra).
Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow has expressed hope that the upcoming election in Myanmar will represent a political transition as part of the broader peace process.
Myanmar citizens in Thailand will cast advance votes in a general election organized by the military junta in Naypyidaw on December 6-7, according to the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok.
