Myanmar’s military junta has billed the election as a return to democracy. International observers, however, have widely dismissed it as illegitimate.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security justified the decision on the grounds that the country has “made notable progress in governance and stability.” The U.S. government has ended temporary legal ...

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected ...

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate. The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city ...