Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday denied that her country’s armed forces committed genocide against the Rohingya minority. She told the U.N.’s top...
MYANMAR-THAI BORDER – Thousands of people sporting traditional ethnic costumes and Karen rebel fighters showing off their guns marched, sang and danced last week to...
YANGON – Amnesty International has withdrawn its most prestigious human rights prize from Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetuating human rights abuses...
OTTAWA – Canada’s parliament has unanimously voted to strip Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship over her handling of the Rohingya crisis....
YANGON – A former columnist for Myanmar’s state media has been jailed for seven years for “abusive” Facebook posts about Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi,...
YANGON – At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year prison...
YANGON – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists for reporting massacres by the military at...
YANGON – The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s reputation as a rights champion, critics say,...
– YANGON – The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee says she has been barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure....
Burma is marking the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain Wednesday, amid criticism that the government’s recent clemency program is not doing enough for...
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is to register her political party this week to contest a by-election expected to be held in early 2012,...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday for a landmark three-day visit to the long-isolated nation focused on encouraging further political...
