BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military regime on Wednesday extended a national state of emergency by six months amid intense fighting with rebel groups, stoking concern that it could increase political and economic control ahead of a proposed general election in 2025.
Myanmar has remained under a state of emergency since the military took control of the country in February 2021. The National Defense and Security Council decided to extend the emergency for the sixth time at a meeting in the capital, Naypyitaw, on Wednesday.
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