Myanmar frees almost 5,000 prisoners in new year’s amnesty but no sign of Aung San Suu Kyi - Thousands released in holiday ...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many of Myanmar’s ills welcomed in Bangkok beggars belief, writes Benedict Rogers ...

UN calls on Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and respect earthquake recovery ceasefire - Military criticised by UN for over 120 attacks since announcing truce and blocking aid ...

The head of Myanmar's military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

Many political detainees have been held on a charge of incitement, a catch-all offense widely used to arrest critics of the ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar, is reported to have survived last week’s devastating earthquake unharmed in the prison cell where she is kept in solitary confinement.

James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Dozens of relatives and friends waited early on Thursday at the gate of Insein Prison, on the outskirts of Myanmar ... when ...