She called on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has imprisoned since the 2021 military coup, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ms Suu Kyi, and president U Win Myint.

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 ...

Sean Turnell, a Sydney academic who served as an economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said bombing in ... now more than 350 people dead.” Khin Moe, 53, who arrived in Australia ...

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in February 2021, leading to armed conflict across the country. The United Nations last week warned ...

His mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in February 2021 after the military ... “were sleeping out in the soccer fields at night and afraid to go back home.” Khin Thiri Nandar Soe of Pinole, one of ...

Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against the ruling military junta, announced a unilateral partial ceasefire Saturday to facilitate earthquake ...

Myanmar has been in turmoil since early 2021, when the military ousted an elected civilian government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. A protest movement morphed into an armed ...

Myanmar’s military government said the death toll had reached 1,644, though that number is expected to rise significantly. A rescue team searching for people in the rubble of an apartment ...

He said that if Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted and imprisoned ... and heavy machinery such as excavators. Eaint Thadar Phyu, 18, an English teacher in Mandalay, said she was on the ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since Feb 1, 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. The takeover was met with massive nonviolent resistance, which has ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar on Friday, causing extensive damage across a wide swath of one of the world’s poorest countries and prompting officials to warn that the ...

“The fireball emerged from the ground immediately after the earthquake,” said resident Kyi Thein, as she stood on the charred remains of her home. “The fire spread out across the district ...