Junta chief orders ‘smooth transition’ from poverty, eyes nuclear rule – plus a PR scam blitz, arresting election dissenters, ...

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.

People in the Karen National Union-held township of Kyondoe are forbidden from sheltering or transporting scammers who fled a show crackdown in Myawaddy’s KK Park.

Min Aung Hlaing will head the top-level committee, whose formation follows China’s crucial support for the junta’s election and its military operations in northern Shan.