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

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year, is locked in a jungle jail with no prospect of release, while the army with whom she had shared power since 2016 fights a brutal civil war on ...

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and ...

Ms Suu Kyi has been held in detention in a prison in Naypyidaw since the fall of her government in 2021, with calls demanding ...

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 ...

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

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many ...

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.

But it had a storied past, having served as the residence of the Burmese ambassador Daw Khin Kyi, the mother of Myanmar’s former leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi ...