Young soldiers, professors and doctors are organizing at the Loikaw front, near the Thailand border, to win land from the ...

Violence against civilians surged, with thousands jailed, tortured and killed. A UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner (OHCHR) report estimates 5,350 civilian deaths and over 3.3 million ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year ... It is again doing what it has done for most of Myanmar’s independent history – getting rich, while keeping its people poor.

Aung Thu Nyein, a political analyst and director of communications at the Institute for Strategy and Policy in Myanmar, shares a similar view. "Officially, Arakan Army claims it is striving for ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year ... It is again doing what it has done for most of Myanmar’s independent history – getting rich, while keeping its people poor. But in this ...

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Calls are growing in the UK for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison where she has been held for the last four years by Myanmar’s military regime. Former foreign ministers Andrew Mitchell ...

open image in gallery Demonstrators rally to mark the 79th birthday of the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar (AP) UN agencies and other ...