One of the world's most recognised pro-democracy activists needs urgent medical care as she serves a 27-year sentence in a "hellhole" prison, her son has claimed.

AS THE COURT prepared to deliver its verdict in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi on December 6th, the usual suspense that precedes a judgment was absent. The court’s decision was preordained almost from ...

Bangkok — A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday convicted the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption, sentencing her to seven years in prison in the last of a string of criminal ...

Daw Thet Thet Khine, whose party plans to contest the upcoming vote, backed the regime’s widely dismissed corruption claim against Myanmar’s jailed elected leader.

When Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, the Norwegian Nobel Committee dubbed her struggle against the country’s military junta “one of the most extraordinary examples of ...

Police in Myanmar have filed a new charge against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, as the military leaders who took control of the country in a coup attempted to defend their ...

The son of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has raised urgent concerns about his mother's health and safety in a video message on social media, calling for her immediate release. Kim Aris ...

In a New Year’s address to the nation on January 1, Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi promised to take a new approach to long-delayed peace negotiations aimed at ending the country’s tangled ...

Aung San Suu Kyi (center) attends a commemoration ceremony marking 71st Myanmar Independence Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Jan. 4. (Hein Htet/EPA-EFE/REX) Charles Petrie, former U.N. assistant secretary ...

Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader appeared in court via video conference without her lawyer’s knowledge. She faces an additional charge that had not been previously made public. By Hannah Beech The ...

HANOI—Last month, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader, appeared at a panel hosted by Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. At the event, one attendee asked her what had surprised ...