A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

As Congress shifts to new headquarters named after Indira Gandhi, a look at storied past of Type VII bungalow that witnessed ...

The head of Aung San Suu Kyi ’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be ...

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Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a ...

State-run MRTV television reported that Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the military government, granted amnesties ...

open image in gallery A protester covered in fake blood flashes the three-finger salute next to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...

Myanmar’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will turn 80 next summer amid growing concerns about her deteriorating health. Unless there is a significant political change in her country, she looks ...

In South Korea, births increase for the first time in many years. The Japanese company Nippon Steel is planning legal action against Biden's veto on buying United States Ste ...