YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government on Thursday officially annulled the results of the country's 1990 general election, a poll it chose to ignore at the time when the main opposition party won by a landslide. The 1990 polls were declared null and void because they did not comply with a new parliamentary election law enacted this week, the ...

Myanmar's junta has allowed the party of Aung San Suu Kyi to reopen offices closed since 2003 as international anger grew Thursday over new laws barring the opposition icon from elections this year. The US slammed the legislation as a "mockery", while UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to Myanmar's military regime to free Suu Kyi and let her ...

Myanmar's ruling junta has used new election laws to officially annul the result of polls in 1990 that were won by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, state media said Thursday. The regime is planning to hold elections later this year, the first in the country since Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy swept to victory two ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New laws enacted by Myanmar's military government make a mockery of democracy and ensure that elections due later this year will be a farce, the United States said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the election measures, which set strict limits on political participation, undercut U.S. efforts to improve ties with the country ...