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Citizens of Myanmar vote in the second phase to elect the nation's bicameral legislature. One more phase of voting is expected in late January.
2026-01-11

Citizens of Myanmar vote in the first phase to elect the nation's legislature. Two further phases of voting are expected in January.
2025-12-28

The United States announces the end of temporary protected status for approximately 4,000 Myanmar nationals in January 2026, with the Department of Homeland Security citing changes in Myanmar's political and security climate, particularly the upcoming election, for the policy change.
2025-11-24

The military junta of Myanmar formally ends the country's four-year-long state of emergency and declares a December 2025 election for the country's new head of government and legislative members.
2025-07-31

Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty.
2023-05-5

Protesters in the capital Naypyidaw, Mandalay, and the country's largest city Yangon stage a record number of demonstrations against military junta since February 1 coup. Many of public and private employees and civil servant join demonstrations despite military's warning.
2021-02-17

U.S. President Joe Biden threatens to re-impose sanctions on Myanmar's military leaders and calls for them to relinquish the power that they seized in the coup.
2021-02-1

Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi says she would be "above the president" if her National League for Democracy party (NLD) gets the expected win in the Sunday, November 8, 2015, election. The 2008 constitution, drafted by the military without NLD participation, bars her from becoming President.
2015-11-5

Myanmar announces that it is ending media censorship, as part of the ongoing political reforms in the country.
2012-08-20

Nine servicemen from the Thai army are arrested on suspicion of killing 13 Chinese sailors on October 5 in a section of the Mekong River bordering Thailand, Laos and Myanmar.
2011-10-28