The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.

Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim ...

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

There are moments when the fate of a single human being reveals the moral condition of the world. Myanmar has reached that moment — and so have we. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace laureate and the ...

Pulling back from absolute rule and sharing power through elections functions as "an elite management strategy, diffusing ...

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

Myanmar’s military-backed party has extended its lead after the second round of voting in the country's election, according ...

Myanmar military-linked party leads first phase of polls Junta says turnout is 52%; thin compared to past polls Poll excludes opposition leaders with Aung San Suu Kyi detained Jan 02(Reuters) - ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar's military government granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced other inmates' sentences Sunday to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain ...