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Bianca Jagger, ‘Wild Swans’ author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed ... The 79-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner is a divisive and controversial ...

Myanmar has been locked in a civil war triggered by the military’s overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

Four years after overthrowing an elected government of National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the ...

Myanmar’s fragile, nascent quasi-democracy was snuffed out after less than a decade of experimenting with limited reform and ...

Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported yesterday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military ... Here is a nearly 80-year-old woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and inspired singers ...

Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ...