The National League for Democracy has won a landslide victory in Myanmar's historic election, say vote officials.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has requested meetings with the military-backed leadership next week to discuss national reconciliation.

It was the only show in town on Sunday, as huge numbers of people showed up at Yangon's polling stations. The shining eyes reflected voters' eagerness to voice their aspirations for change.

Myanmar's voters have spoken in the first openly contested election after 25 years, and the National League for Democracy...

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.

The November 8 election in Myanmar is a step forward and a significant improvement on the manifestly rigged affair in 2010.

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.

Amnesty International said Bangladeshi migrants and persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar faced "hellish" conditions on trafficking boats.

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.

The government of Myanmar has signed what it says is a nationwide ceasefire deal with eight armed ethnic groups.

Law enforcers arrest a suspected member of Arakan Army, an insurgent outfit of Myanmar, in Rajasthali upazila of Rangamati.

Next month's historic general election in Myanmar could be delayed, electoral officials and political parties say.

A landslide triggered by torrential rains has killed at least 17 people in eastern Myanmar and forced the evacuation of scores more, state media said on Tuesday.

Myanmar's militant group Arakan Liberation Party that had claimed responsibility for the abduction of three Bangladeshis earlier, refuses the ransom and denies their involvement in the incident.

A total of 103 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims have been repatriated from Myanmar.

The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) has been fined $40,000 Hong Kong dollars ($5,160; £3,400) after its fans booed the Chinese national anthem during a match last month.

A light tremor of magnitude 4.4 in the Richter scale is felt in Chittagong and Bandarban.