All of this marks a stunning reversal for Myanmar’s revolutionaries. At the end of 2024 they appeared to have the junta on the run. For a time it had seemed possible that resistance forces might lay siege to Mandalay. Whispers spread that the army was on the brink of collapse.

FOUR Myan­mar nationals, who were caught in Bangkok with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they had planned to smuggle to their home country, will be deported there, Thai police said.

- 4 ​national elections have been held in Myanmar in the past 35 years, ​but only ⁠two - in 2010 and 2015 - resulted in the formation of elected governments. The 2020 election was annulled by a military junta, as was a 1990 ballot - 20 years after it took place and was ignored.

Myanmar’s military government has charged more than 200 people with violating the Southeast Asian country’s voting law ahead of a general election at the end of the month, keeping up pressure on opponents of the polls.

Myanmar’s military leadership has vowed to crack down on cyberscam centers, starting with the notorious KK Park

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged an airstrike on a general hospital in western Rakhine state. It claims armed opposition groups used it as a base.

Myanmar's military government has charged over 200 people with violating the country's strict election law ahead of a general election at the end of this month.

Myanmar’s military leadership has vowed to crack down on cyberscam centers, starting with the notorious KK Park.

Myanmar's military-run elections are being pilloried abroad and shunned at home, but neighbouring China has emerged as an enthusiastic backer of the pariah poll.