Asia

Myanmar’s parliament will hold a bicameral vote to elect a president on Friday (Apr 3), House Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said on Thursday, with the country’s former military chief and junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in the running for the position.The 69-year-old general, who led a 2021 coup that ousted the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered a civil war, stepped down as Myanmar’s top military commander on Monday, after 15 years in the position.On the same day, a member of Myanmar’s lower house of parliament nominated him as a vice presidential candidate, alongside…

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