In the autumn of 2013, I boarded a plane at Yangon airport, leaving Myanmar after four years as the UK’s ambassador. Just before setting off for my flight, I made my final official call. It was with ...

The Independent’s Aung San Suu Kyi documentary has received the “Outstanding Excellence” award at an international film festival. Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi looks at the life of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the immediate release of former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi after learning of her worsening health problems in military custody. Mr Macron wrote to ...

The son of one of the world's most recognised pro-democracy activists fears she could die in a "hellhole" prison amid reports she has a serious health condition. Little has been seen of Myanmar's ...

In Burma, also called Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today to three years at hard labor for illegally harboring an American tourist. But the Chairman of the ruling ...

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to an undisclosed location from the home where she was being kept under house arrest in the capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar Now website said on ...

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Kim Aris, the son of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, expressed grave ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the immediate release of former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi after learning of her worsening health problems in military custody. Mr Macron wrote to ...