Tag: Aung San Suu Kyi

The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key ...

Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked northeast after their bodies ...

Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel ...

Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees suspected of being ethnic rebel ...

Hundreds of monks and supporters of Myanmar's ultra-nationalist Ma Ba Tha movement gathered in a Yangon monastery Saturday, in a ...

Branded as Asia's most heavily-armed drug dealers, the China-backed ethnic Wa rebels have emerged as key players in Myanmar's peace ...

Peace talks got underway in Myanmar on Wednesday, with de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defending her government's stuttering ...

Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up ...

Hundreds of representatives from Myanmar's ethnic insurgent groups gathered in the capital on Wednesday for talks aimed at reviving Aung ...

Myanmar's army on Tuesday cleared itself of allegations that troops may have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but ...

A senior European Union official has urged Myanmar to allow full aid access to the north of Rakhine state, where ...

The Vatican and Myanmar established full diplomatic relations on Thursday in the latest step in the former pariah Asian state's ...

Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday rejected a decision by the UN's rights council to investigate allegations of crimes by ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war is part of a worrying assault on human rights and democracy across Southeast ...

A group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is vindictively opposing the decision by the Royal Institute of ...

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became only the sixth person to receive honorary Canadian citizenship Wednesday, before advocating in a ...

Myanmar has started shutting down three displacement camps in strife-torn Rakhine state, a senior official said Tuesday, although it was ...

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping ...

An official working for Aung San Suu Kyi's government was sentenced to six months in jail in a Yangon court ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports ...