Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi's party is leading in nearly all the districts where vote counting has been completed.

It isn't clear Burma's new government is as committed to political freedom as it should be.

The opposition appears on course for a landslide in the first free elections in 25 years.

Activist's National League for Democracy party is expected to win largest share of votes.

No violence reported as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party is seen winning largest share of votes.

Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi heads the opposition but is not allowed to become president.

Ahead of Myanmar's historic elections, a new report finds evidence of ongoing genocide against the Muslim minority group.

Construction will begin in November, shortly after Myanmar's elections take place.

Myanmar is holding its historic elections in a matter of weeks.

Up to 8,000 Rohingya were trapped in the Andaman Sea earlier this year.

Most are overseas and have been unable to register; canceled polls in areas affected by ethnic violence could also dent the election's credibility.

The November elections will show if Myanmar's march to democracy is real.

It's not just China's expansion in the South China Sea that is rattling the Southeast Asian nations.

The peace deal does not include two-thirds of the armed insurgencies.

Beijing has denied the accusation but the rare public criticism exposes growing tensions between the two countries.

More than four million refugees have fled Syria in the past four years.

Military uses veto to prevent changes to constitution allowing opposition leader to run.

"The parallels to the Nazi genocide are alarming. Fortunately, we have not reached a stage of mass killing."

The violence against a Muslim minority is not because of sectarian or communal differences but is a planned eradication.

Researchers say this is a common "service" for desperate migrant mothers fearful of losing their jobs.

Authorities don't know yet how many bodies are in each of the 139 grave sites.

More than a million Rohingya are not welcome in Myanmar, or anywhere else.

Myanmar has up to now resisted calls for it to take part in meetings on the migrant crisis.

With thousands of migrants coming ashore, the destination countries have come up with a plan.

Southeast Asian governments are scrambling to resolve the maritime migrant crisis.

Fleeing persecution, Rohingya migrants are being kept at sea by countries that don't want them.

Several thousand migrants, many of them hungry and sick, are adrift in boats in Southeast Asian seas and governments of the region must rescue them quickly to avert a "massive humanitarian crisis," the U.N. says.

The Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar, were among the hundreds of refugees rescued in Malaysia and Indonesia this weekend.

MySQUAR aims to be the "driving force" behind Myanmar's online economy

A court in Yangon sentenced the men for denigrating Buddhism.