In 1946, not long before his assassination by political rivals in Yangon, Aung San delivered a fiery pro-independence speech on the steps of Shwedagon Pagoda, a 2,500-year-old, gold-leaf-covered ...

Timor-Leste's long-awaited bid to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is in jeopardy. It has encountered unexpected headwinds -- this time from the Philippines. The sudden ...

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Kin Oung is the author of the book Who Killed Aung San?” He is the son of Tun Hla Oung, the deputy inspector general of police, CID department, who was credited with the rapid capture and arrest of U ...

YANGON: Myanmar authorities failed to auction off Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Tuesday (Apr 29) - the fourth time the sale of the jailed Nobel peace laureate's property has attracted no ...

The chief of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has for the first time since seizing power four ...

Villagers in central Myanmar have held funerals for almost two dozen students and teachers killed in what they said was a ...

Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central ...

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