The four artists had been serving maximum seven-year sentences for criticizing the military's electoral processes.

BANGKOK – Myanmar’s new President is considering “good things” for detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand’s Foreign Minister said on April 22, as the country seeks to normalise ties with ...

Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, more than five years after the military ousted the civilian government she led and ...

MANILA, April 24 (Reuters) - The Philippines, chair of the regional bloc ASEAN, on Friday encouraged more prisoner releases in Myanmar, including ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and said a ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Eastern Washington District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Aaron Aung to three years in prison on Wednesday for not returning his then two-year-old daughter to her mother at a ...

BANGKOK — Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest and her sentence has been reduced as part of a prisoner amnesty for a Buddhist holiday. Accompanying the ...

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Myanmar’s military is well versed in the art of obscuring language and manipulating narratives. More recently, it has moved to entrench its rule through the façade of a sham election to install a ...

April 24 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing has issued new emergency ordinances to impose military control in 60 townships, a move aimed at tightening security in ...

MOSCOW, Idaho -- A Moscow couple and one of their fathers have been convicted in the kidnapping of a Pullman baby and running away to Mexico in 2024. Aaron Aung was wanted by law enforcement when he ...

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Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) hold a banner displaying the portraits of new Myanmar President Htin Kyaw (L) and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (R) in Yangon on April 10, 2016 ...