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 ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The Independent his ...

The head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be freed. Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College, has written ...

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four years ago, the former British colony wedged between India and China promised so much. A half-century of military rule had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting. Kay Nietfeld/dpa The Myanmar military ...

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, turned 80 last year, and last Friday reached a cumulative total of 20 years in detention. The question facing her, the illegal military junta that now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains in detention after she was ousted and her hugely popular party was unable to ...

India, June 14 -- Once a global icon of democracy, her plight now draws diminishing international outrage. Yet even as the West looks away, resistance forces in Myanmar are gaining ground. The junta's ...