The timing is perfect for a film biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Late last month Suu Kyi won a seat in Parliament and, as head of ...

Aung San Suu Kyi is many things. She is a global democracy icon. She is a beloved national hero in Burma, whose people call her Mother Suu. She is a newly minted parliamentarian in a country that is ...

On a sweltering day marking the end of Thingyan, the Burmese New Year, a media outlet in Yangon published a weather-related scoop. Eleven Media Group revealed that Aung San Suu Kyi had been moved out ...

Since April 2016, when the international human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi became the first democratic leader of Myanmar, activists, journalists, and policymakers around the world have been ...

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...

YANGON (Reuters) - The last time Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi travelled to western Europe, she was feted as the freshly elected civilian ruler of a fledgling democracy who had brought an end to ...

Myanmar’s military junta says that it has moved Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s former leader, from prison to house arrest, due to concerns about the hot weather in Myanmar’s central plain. In ...

FILE - In this June 15, 2012, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house ...

ROME (Reuters) - Luc Besson's "The Lady," inspired by Myanmar pro democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, will open the International Rome Film Festival which runs from October 27 to ...

It is rare for an international arrest warrant to be issued against a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and political prisoner whose release is demanded by both the UN General Assembly and the UN Security ...

U Kyi Toe, ex-chief of the NLD’s Information Committee, pledged ‘to be strong to work together’ with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains jailed in Naypyitaw.

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The Independent his ...