Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to streets regularly over the past month to oppose the coup
01 Mar 2021 11:31 AM
Like all those who stage coups, the Tatmadaw says it will hold a 'free and fair general election' after the emergency ends
04 Feb 2021 7:38 AM
It justified the coup by alleging 'huge irregularities' in the November polls that the election commission had failed to address
01 Feb 2021 11:24 AM
The NLD won 346 seats in the combined lower and upper houses of the legislature, far above the 322 needed to secure a majority
13 Nov 2020 1:02 PM
Myanmar's economic and political elite, including the NLD, have long been dominated by the majority Bamar ethnicity.
01 Apr 2017 5:35 PM
Many activists have expressed acute concern about a spike in the number of online defamation prosecutions since the NLD came to power.
30 Mar 2017 10:50 AM