Members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party said Tuesday they will wait to see whether laws governing next year’s elections conform with democratic standards before deciding if they will contest the polls.

Myanmar’s military government tightened security as the country’s pro-democracy party of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gathered Tuesday to discuss political issues including next year’s planned election.

Two members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party were arrested and charged with insulting religion after they prayed for the release of political prisoners, a party spokesman said Friday.

Authorities in Myanmar have arrested five members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, a spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the U.N. called for the release of more than 2,000 political prisoners in the military-run country

Authorities have arrested five members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, a spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the U.N. called for the release of 2,100 political prisoners.

The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday it would increase its focus on areas of Myanmar from which Muslim migrants have recently fled.

Myanmar’s military junta angrily dismissed two recent U.S. government reports critical of its human rights record and counter-narcotics efforts as unfounded and politically motivated, state media reported Thursday.

Two explosions shook parks near busy thoroughfares in military-ruled Myanmar’s largest city Tuesday night. An official said there were no casualties although onlookers saw one man being led to an ambulance.

Witnesses say two explosions hit Myanmar’s largest city, but that no casualties have been reported.

Witnesses say an explosion has rocked a park in Myanmar’s largest city, but that it caused no casualties.