Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

The Phantom Investor: How a Wanted Meth Kingpin Posed as a Tycoon in Georgia

A Taiwanese man touted as a major foreign investor in the Georgian city of Batumi is actually a wanted drug criminal who fled ...

Myanmar's junta leader dismisses critics as military allies head for landslide election win

The United Nations, rights groups and the UK have denounced the polls as a sham exercise to perpetuate the military's hold.

Military-backed party secures Myanmar election win with opposition excluded

Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party has claimed victory in the country's first election since ...

Myanmar holds its last election round with the army already certain to keep control over government

Voting has begun in the final round of Myanmar’s general election, concluding a monthlong process. The military-backed Union ...
Opinion

5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart

Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile. Since then, the economy has ...

What to Know About Myanmar’s ‘So-Called Election’

Myanmar’s military junta has billed the election as a return to democracy. International observers, however, have widely ...
The Irrawaddy

Rival Party Leaders Defeated or Barred as Junta Proxy USDP Sweeps Myanmar Election

All rival party leaders who competed against the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Myanmar’s election were either defeated or barred, as the USDP swept to victory in a ...
WUSF Public Media

Myanmar finishes the final phase of its election, which critics call a sham

Myanmar completed its third and final round of voting on Sunday in a monthlong general election called by the ruling military junta — an election that critics call a sham.