Myanmar’s military rulers say polls were free and fair as UN reports 170 killed during election period.

The Union and Solidarity Development Party, backed by Myanmar's ruling military, has won the country's general election. The poll has been widely condemned because of the use of threats and violence ...

The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.

The UN said "credible sources" had counted more than 400 strikes in the same period.

A plan proposed five years ago by Southeast Asian leaders to end Myanmar’s civil war has failed but could still be used to ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Tin Oo, one of the closest associates of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as well as a co-founder of her National League for Democracy party, has died. He was 97. Tin Oo died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Bangkok (Reuters) -Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from worsening heart ...

Myanmar’s military junta says that it has moved Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s former leader, from prison to house arrest, due to concerns about the hot weather in Myanmar’s central plain. In ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than ...

Despite her absence from public view, Aung San Suu Kyi still casts a long shadow over Myanmar. The election is expected to ...

Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim milestone for a country wrecked by brutal military rule and embroiled in a ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – will she live to see freedom? - COMMENT: After two decades of confinement, Myanmar’s most famous political prisoner is in failing health and faces her ...