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 ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – will she live to see freedom? - COMMENT: After two decades of confinement, Myanmar’s most famous political prisoner is in failing health and faces her ...

Myanmar’s military rulers have ordered the release of more than 6,000 prisoners to mark the country’s Independence Day. While families rushed to wait outside prisons on Sunday to see if their loved ...

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 ...

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions. By Sui-Lee ...

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) - ...

Dec 27 (Reuters) - Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia's worst humanitarian crises. Already one of Southeast ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships including some ...

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 ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar’s first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war rages ...