As part of our 'Stories That Shaped Us' series, to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 election, The Irrawaddy revisits a ...

Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan urges ASEAN to support expanding ceasefire beyond the currently affected zone.

Assassination in Yangon, dictator rewrites history, election scenarios emerge, China-backed dam resurfaces, and two helicopters lost.

A retired Myanmar general who formerly served as ambassador to Cambodia was shot dead on May 22, two military sources said, ...

A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar’s military has been shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group near his ...

Aung San Suu Kyi served as Myanmar's top civilian ... and political prisoner whose release is demanded by both the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council. However, this is precisely ...

Rifle-bearing servicemen and women stood to attention as the general reviewed their ranks ... democratically-elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been met with widespread opposition ...

Yet Rehman, 34, speaks enthusiastically from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh about the now jailed Myanmar leader and her father General Aung San, Myanmar's independence hero, who in 1946 declared that ...

Yet Rehman, 34, speaks enthusiastically from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh about the now jailed Myanmar leader and her father General Aung San, Myanmar's independence hero, who in 1946 declared that ...

However, in response to VOA's inquiry, junta spokesperson General Zaw Min Tun dismissed ... No evidence was submitted for Aung San Suu Kyi, who served as state counselor and de facto leader ...

The Tatmadaw had proud traditions and for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi it was, above all, an institution created by her father General Aung San – considered the father of Burmese nationalism.

In 2022 he was visited by the head of the junta, General Min Aung Hlaing, then a year later a monk with ties to the army paid a call and suggested that he might persuade Aung San Suu Kyi to retire ...