While Suu Kyi remains hugely popular in the majority Buddhist country, her status as a democracy icon abroad collapsed before the military takeover after she defended generals in their crackdown ...

Thousands of supporters of Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi have celebrated her 80th birthday by attempting a ...

Leaked prison logs from early 2024 have provided rare insight into the tightly controlled life of Aung San Suu Kyi, the ...

To mark detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th birthday, The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the key events in ...

The son of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has launched a bid to collect a world-record 80,000 messages from around the ...

Despite growing discontent within the ranks, Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing may survive—by stepping sideways rather than down.

"The countries where they are most prominent are all still continuing with political dynasties playing major roles, and there is a looming dynasty war in the Philippines," Joshua Kurlantzick, senior ...

New report details harrowing plight of tens of thousands of political prisoners, including the country’s democratically elected leader, who was overthrown by the military in 2021 ...

Aung San Suu Kyi was a globally renowned human rights advocate since the ... As chief councilor, she was notably hesitant to speak out against the military and even went to The Hague in 2019 to defend ...

Aung San Suu Kyi served as Myanmar's top civilian leader ... she was notably hesitant to speak out against the military and even went to The Hague in 2019 to defend Myanmar at the International ...

open image in gallery A Rohingya refugee watches a live feed of Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice in the Hague from a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in December ...

The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, which takes an unbiased look at her life and the plight of Myanmar. In the documentary, Lord Hague, who welcomed Ms Suu Kyi to London in 2012, said it was ...