What to Know About the Vote in Myanmar

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

Myanmar’s military government releases more than 6,100 prisoners on independence anniversary

Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to over 6,100 prisoners to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's ...

Myanmar’s Civil War Pushes Infectious Disease Over Its Borders

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten ...

Myanmar’s military junta begins elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...

Forget Transistors: This New “Intelligent” Material Computes Like a Human Brain

Tiny molecules that can think, remember, and learn may be the missing link between electronics and the brain. For more than ...
Anadolu Ajansi

UK remains 'deeply concerned' about ongoing violence in Myanmar, UN representative says

The UK remains "deeply concerned" about ongoing violence in Myanmar, the country's acting permanent representative to the UN told reporters Monday ahead of a closed Security Council session on the ...
ABC News

Myanmar-Thailand earthquake live updates: Death toll crosses 2,000 in Myanmar

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

Myanmar is holding phased elections. Here's why they're being called a 'sham'

Myanmar's military rulers are holding a general election in phases starting Dec. 28 amid the country's civil war. The head of ...
Yahoo

An airstrike on a hospital in a rebel-controlled area of Myanmar kills 34 and injures 80

BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar ’s military destroyed a hospital in an area controlled by a leading rebel armed force, killing 34 patients and medical staff, according to a rescue worker and ...
The Diplomat

Myanmar’s National Unity Government in 2025: A Series of Unfortunate Events?

Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), the shadow opposition government made up of lawmakers ousted in the 2021 military coup, has encountered quite a number of challenges this year – some out of ...
PC Gamer

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a ...
UPI

At least 33 killed, 76 injured after Myanmar military bombs hospital

Dec. 11 (UPI) --Airstrikes by Myanmar's military government killed at least 33 patients and staff and injured 76, many of them critically, at a public hospital in Rakhine State in the west of the ...