UN calls on Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and respect earthquake recovery ceasefire - Military criticised by UN ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kim Aris, son of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, about her imprisonment and why he's ...

The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with the epicenter near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay. It damaged the city’s airport, buckled roads and collapsed hundreds of buildings along a wide ...

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by ...

(AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) Volunteers look for survivors near a damaged building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows ...

But a civil war has raged across the country since the military took power in 2021, ousting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ending a 10-year experiment with democratic rule. Swathes of the ...

On Friday, the 7.7 magnitude quake hit the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar, and was followed by reports of destruction ...

“We fear it may be weeks before we understand the full extent ... Myanmar’s military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, and is now involved in a bloody ...

Filmmaker and actor Gavin Hood reflects on his relationship with the late South African novelist, playwright and director, who has died aged 92 Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi marks ...

Foreign journalists are also rarely allowed to enter officially due to a lack of press freedom. So ... were held four years later, which Aung San Suu Kyi won. Democratic hopes were dashed in ...

Meanwhile, Aung Myo Thant, 41, was paying double the usual price to fly home on Sunday to be with his wife and children in Mandalay. Thant, who works as a painter, was also only able to reach his ...

The military - headed by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing - who is facing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant – has also been accused of weaponising internet shut downs to stifle what ...