Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that Sunday's national elections were "not free but fair". In her first interview since the polls, Suu Kyi congratulated the people of Myanmar.

Myanmar's ruling party concedes defeat in the country's general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appears on course for a landslide victory.

Votes are being counted in Myanmar's first openly contested national election after 25 years.

Candidates in Myanmar enters their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's general election.

Sadly neither the USDP nor NLD has chosen Muslim candidates to contest, though Myanmar has over five million Muslims. Rohingyas are automatically disenfranchised as they are not considered citizens of the country. It will be a Muslim-free election.

When Myanmar votes next month in what has been billed as its first free and fair election in 25 years, around 4 million of his fellow citizens, won't be taking part.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi vows to lead the country if her National League for Democracy comes to power in the upcoming election.

Campaigning begins in Myanmar, two months ahead of its first openly-contested general election in 25 years.

There was a time when Aung San Suu Kyi was seen as Asia's Nelson Mandela. To her more ardent fans, she was more than that. An icon, almost a saint. So why is the Nobel Peace Prize winner's political party excluding Muslims from its list of candidates for November's general election?

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that she will form an alliance with Shwe Mann, the ousted chairman of the governing Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Myanmar's powerful ruling party chief Shwe Mann has been ousted from his post, party members said on Thursday.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi registers to run for a general election which her party is expected to sweep, as the ruling bloc admitted it was bracing for big losses.

Myanmar's president reaffirms his vow to hold a "free and fair" election after the country set the date for what many hope will be the most democratic vote in a generation for the former junta-run nation.

Myanmar officials announce November 8 as the date for a historic general election set to be the first contested by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition in a quarter of a century.

Myanmar's parliament deals a body blow to Aung San Suu Kyi's hopes of amending a junta-era constitution that bars her from the presidency before landmark elections, voting down a bill to end the military's effective veto on charter change.

In rare comments on Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urges caution on granting citizenship to minorities, saying the sensitive issue must be addressed "very, very carefully."

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, is expected to begin her first visit to China , at a time of tension between the two countries.

The Dalai Lama urges fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis.