As the junta prepares for heavily rigged polls to be held in parts of the country, Bertil Lintner looks back at Myanmar’s troubled record of elections—which have rarely been free or fair.

Today in History for Nov. 13: In 354, African theologian Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, was born in Numidia, now Algeria. Augustine wrote many works that had a dominant influence on later Western ...

Myanmar's military leaders will soon hold a general election for the first time since taking power in 2021. They call it a ...

The junta that ousted Burma’s last freely elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now seeking to hold sham polls to entrench its ...

Myanmar says it has commissioned new Russian helicopters and Chinese airplanes into its air force as the two nations continue ...