Aung San Suu Kyi News

Neighbors of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said a new message appeared last month on a large outdoor signboard in her compound, saying, "All martyrs must finish their mission." The message appeared on ...

As Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, returned to the country on Monday for his latest round of talks aimed at achieving political reconciliation, the ruling regime showed its ...

Police in Burma's western Rakhine state arrested the chairman of a chapter of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party yesterday, a party official said.

YANGON: Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held a rare meeting with her lawyer following a visit to the country by a UN rights expert, her party said on Sunday, but the junta continues to haul in ...

Five activists have been sentenced to 2 years in prison for marching on the 20th anniversary of pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the Myanmar's military rulers, an opposition party official said ...

Burma's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association is reportedly planning to form proxy parties to contest the proposed general election in 2010.

Bangkok : A close aide of a Wa ethnic leader was sent to Insein prison last week, according to reliable sources.

Thousands of sapphires, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, jade and other gems glitter in long glass display cases as merchants haggle with professional buyers _ most of them foreigners _ and tourists.

There are more than 1,850 known political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Myanmar .

Denmark's minister for development cooperation said in a recent interview with a Danish newspaper that economic sanctions on Burma and a tourism boycott of the country are counterproductive.

U.S. President George W. Bush arrived Wednesday to meet a tantrum-prone Thai prime minister, express America's "opposition to China's detention of political dissidents," and later plot with Burmese to force ...

YANGON, Myanmar : Twenty years after millions took to the streets in a failed bid to bring down Myanmar's dictatorship, the prospects for change remain dim.

Two decades have passed since the streets of Burma were filled with hundreds of thousands of triumphant demonstrators chanting over and over again, "We want democracy." Unfortunately, their calls for creating a ...

Until the generals revoked his performance licence Zarganar was one of the funniest men in Burma but when I met him in Rangoon, in May this year two weeks after the cyclone, there were few jokes to be cracked ...

A prominent exiled Myanmar opposition lawmaker Thursday called on the Philippines to take a more prominent role in pushing for genuine democratic changes in the isolated state.

Bangkok, Aug 7 : US President George W. Bush said Thursday that he would take up the Myanmar problem with China, one of the few countries that has any influence over the cloistered military state, dissidents ...

YANGON, Myanmar : Aung San Suu Kyi's political party told a U.N. envoy visiting Myanmar on Wednesday that the junta's decision to keep her under house arrest for a sixth year violates her human rights.

Thai police have arrested about 200 illegal Myanmar workers in this Thai-Myanmar border province ahead of this week's US presidential visit to Thailand.

The United Nations Human Rights Council sent a special rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana, to Burma this week to seek improvements on the human rights situation in Burma.

Aung Din survived the torture and years of imprisonment he received in Burma as punishment for his political views.