Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy ...

A half-century of military rule had given way to a government with a popular leader ... democracy can achieve, even in countries with shallow democratic roots. Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar ... The former Oxford housewife – who, with her National League for Democracy (NLD), has won the only three fair general elections held in ...

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

The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu ... fight for democracy became famous across the world. The junta allowed Ms Suu Kyi to become ...

YANGON--Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi pulled out of the first ... A spokesman for the ruling National League for Democracy did not answer phone calls from Reuters seeking further comment.

A military court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in prison on election fraud charges. Suu Kyi has now been convicted of 20 years in prison following ...