The interior and border affairs ministers have switched jobs in the government shakeup, while the woman given the thankless task of attracting tourists to war-torn Myanmar has been sacked.

Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy – by pushing to ...