The US International Development Finance Corporation says it wants to deepen bilateral ties with Myanmar to rebuild after COVID-19.
A Look at Myanmar’s Election and Suu Kyi’s Expected Victory
Myanmar holds national and state elections Sunday in which Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will be looking to hold on to power.
Despite accusations of genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party is on track to win another term in Myanmar
Myanmar is set to vote on Sunday in its second democratic general election since the end of oppressive military rule — a poll that’s expected to be marked by ethnic divisions and health concerns over …
Aung San Suu Kyi expected to win Myanmar election even as some voters question her democratic ideals
Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are …
‘This Is Not Democracy’: Myanmar Prepares for a Troubled Election
The vote on Sunday will render a verdict not only on the country’s fragile constitutional settlement but also on its civilian leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Facebook Shuts Dozens of Myanmar Pages Over ‘Inauthentic Behaviour’
In its monthly report, Facebook said it had taken down a network of 36 accounts and six pages run by a Myanmar public relations agency, Openmind, because it said they were using fictitious people to …
Suu Kyi’s Party Expected to Win Second Term in Myanmar Polls
Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago.
‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls.
‘Spreading like wildfire’: Facebook fights hate speech before Myanmar poll
One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s general election on Sunday, Sithu Maung, worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances.
Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy
The constitutional change needed to further democratise Myanmar is impossible without the military’s consent, so achieving major political transformation through the election alone seems unlikely.