Myanmar politics

Aung San Suu Kyi’s dangerous gamble to push ahead with a controversial election as a second wave of COVID-19 hits Myanmar hard. 

By accepting Myanmar's rigid official racial and religious categorizations, the EU-funded app runs the risk of entrenching sectarian divides.

The increasing spread of the virus is amplifying doubts about the viability and legitimacy of the upcoming election.

As in 2015, more than a million Rohingya Muslims will be unable to cast a vote in the upcoming polls.

The popular leader of the National League for Democracy will seek another term for her party, five years after its historic victory.

If the polls move forward despite the pandemic, it will be a landmark development for Myanmar.

Myanmar is having to weigh competing public health and socioecononmic concerns, all with an eye toward navigating the precarious civil-military balance.

Recent events have highlighted the more aggressive side of the country’s nationalist tendencies as it prepares to head to the polls later this year.

Facing genocide charges in the international arena, Myanmar’s domestic politics are set to heat up in 2020, too.

The Nobel peace prize winner will now be defending charges of genocide at an international court. How did it come to this?

Aung San Suu Kyi’s government has not been the game changer for women that many hoped it would be.