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

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed. By Richard C. Paddock Myanmar’s military ...

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 ...

Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition ...

Myanmar’s military regime has rejected speculation that detained civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi may have died, insisting in a statement to reporters on Tuesday that the world’s oldest political ...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son has said she “could be dead already”, warning that years of isolation and an information blackout under military detention have left him fearing the worst about Myanmar’s jailed ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Myanmar held relatively free and fair elections in 2020, dominated by Aung ...

A key aide to Myanmar's deposed democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi was among hundreds of political prisoners freed by the junta in a pre-election amnesty on Thursday, AFP reporters saw. The Barron ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) faces challenges in re-engaging with Myanmar post-election, amidst criticism of the upcoming polls as a military-controlled sham. Former leader Aung ...

BANGKOK, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Southeast Asian regional bloc will find it difficult to re-engage with Myanmar even after its upcoming election, the Thai foreign minister said on Tuesday, calling for ...

Women in Iran, Liberia, Yemen and Myanmar have been recognized for their activism, occasionally while they were in prison and faced serious personal risk. By Hannah Beech Reporting from Bangkok The ...

At the “YOU Is U 2025” pageant held in Pattaya, Thailand last week, Thai transgender beauty queen Chayavate Somwong made an emotional appeal for the immediate release of Myanmar’s detained democracy ...