Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar) Birth name: Aung San ...

The son of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has launched a bid to collect a world-record 80,000 messages from around the ...

New report details harrowing plight of tens of thousands of political prisoners, including the country’s democratically ...

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An Argentinian court issued an international arrest warrant for Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and political prisoner, along with other Myanmar officials, on charges of genocide and crimes ...

The U.N. envoy to Myanmar is warning that the Southeast Asian country is on “a path to self-destruction” if the violence ...

It is impossible to understand Aung San Suu Kyi, or Myanmar, without understanding Buddhism. Yet this underlying story has often been eclipsed as the world has focused instead on military ...

What is taking place inside Myanmar is a humanitarian disaster, but it matters for another, more abstract reason, too.

A widespread armed struggle against military rule in Myanmar began in February 2021 after generals seized power from the ...

Myanmar was plunged into nationwide armed conflict after the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021. Cho Tun Aung is the latest victim of a series of assassinations since ...

The junta labels the attack as part of a 'terrorist' operation in one of the most high-profile assassinations.