Voting was held Sunday in the final round of Myanmar’s general election, concluding a monthlong process widely denounced as illegitimate.

Malaysia-s foreign minister says The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will not endorse elections in military-ruled ...

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

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections. A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - With her health failing and an information vacuum around Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her son worries that he may not even know if she passed away. Kim ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the ...

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 ...