Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim ...

The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

The Independent’s Aung San Suu Kyi documentary has received the “Outstanding Excellence” award at an international film festival. Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi looks at the life of ...

Bangkok, Dec 28, (dpa/GNA) – The son of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi strongly criticized the parliamentary elections staged by the military junta on Sunday, the first elections ...

Three days after Christmas, the military dictatorship in Myanmar (formerly Burma) held the first round of so-called elections. But let us be in no doubt – these are completely sham and illegitimate, ...

AFP AFP Dec 28, 2025 Dec 28, 2025 Updated Dec 29, 2025 Voters trickled to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years ...

Myanmar's is holding its first elections since the military seized power five years ago. It could give the military junta more legitimacy. Myanmar is holding its first election since the military ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal shooting of conservative ...

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 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 ...