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

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, attends the bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the president house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Jan. 18, 2020. (Pool Photo via AP) ...

Amnesties are regularly announced to commemorate national holidays or Buddhist festivals, but most high-profile political prisoners including deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remain detained.

Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup that unseated an elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering a massive protest movement that ...

Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup that unseated an elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering a massive protest movement that ...

The push for nuclear power in Myanmar comes amid an expanding civil war triggered by a 2021 military coup that removed the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Facing a ...

led by iconic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The coup has seen Myanmar descend into a multi-sided civil war and has displaced at least three million people, according to United Nations estimates.