Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country's general election, the first since the 2021 military coup. International observers and opponents of military rule call the vote illegitimate.

Under the shadow of civil war and questions over the poll's credibility, ⁠ voters in Myanmar cast their ballots in apparently low numbers in a general election on Sunday (Dec 28), the first since a mi...

“We have to do something,” said Nant Khin Aye Oo, chairwoman of the Kayin People’s Party, one of the few parties that was not barred from fielding candidates.