Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the ...

Myanmar has opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a ...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son has said she “could be dead already”, warning that years of isolation and an information blackout under military detention have left him fearing the worst about Myanmar’s jailed ...

The son of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has raised urgent concerns about his mother's health and safety in a video message on social media, calling for her immediate release. Kim Aris ...

Myanmar's state-run media say the country's newly elected parliament will convene for its first session next month, following an election that critics said was neither free nor fair.

New parliament opens for the first time since the 2021 coup after elections that excluded major opposition parties.

As of Wednesday the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 20 years in detention in Myanmar, five of them since her government was overthrown by a military coup in ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi found meditation difficult at first, she acknowledged. It wasn’t until her first period of house arrest, between 1989 and 1995, she said, that “I gained control of my thoughts” and ...

BANGKOK — The head of Myanmar’s military government made a rare appearance at a ceremony on Saturday honoring General Aung San, an independence hero and father of jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon on Feb. 15, 2021. (Photo: AFP) Myanmar’s ...