Myanmar’s military chief used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day celebration to reaffirm plans to hold a general ...

Pope Francis has appealed for the release of Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and even offered to shelter her at the Vatican. “I asked for Ms Suu Kyi’s release and received ...

Suu Kyi, 79, remained there after her 2010 release from house arrest until moving in 2012 to the capital, Naypyitaw, to serve in parliament. She became the nation’s leader after a 2015 general ...

Sitting in a dimly-lit bamboo shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya Muslims like Azizur Rehman could be forgiven for hating Aung San Suu Kyi. Five years ago, the then-leader of ...

An eight-city U.S. tour by the son of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will include Fort Wayne, according to local natives of the Southeast Asia country. Ko Htein Lin, also known as Kim ...

We know Aung San Suu Kyi as "a golden bird in a cage"; she is a valuable icon representing freedom and democracy of which the suppressed population of Burma project much hope for. In the West she ...

State-run media in Myanmar say the head of the military government has declared the country will hold a general election within 10 months.

Myanmar’s military government must release jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. The Foreign Secretary said Britain had “not forgotten” those “arbitrarily ...