It is unclear whether that full number will be released as many may have additional convictions. Read more at ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) faces challenges in re-engaging with Myanmar post-election, amidst ...

Myanmar's military regime has granted amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners and dismissed charges against more than 5,500 ...

Excited families are greeting relatives released from Myanmar’s Insein Prison as part of a mass amnesty granted by the ...

(Reuters) -Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from worsening heart problems and needs urgent medical attention, her son said on Friday, in an appeal for her immediate ...

Aung San Suu Kyi found meditation difficult at first, she acknowledged. It wasn’t until her first period of house arrest, between 1989 and 1995, she said, that “I gained control of my thoughts” and ...

Alexander Lukashenko’s visit comes shortly before military government holds national polls widely condemned as a sham.

It said she had failed to act against her country's persecution of the Rohingya. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was rescinding a major human rights award it gave Nobel laureate ...

A key aide to Myanmar's deposed democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi was among hundreds of political prisoners freed by the ...

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.