How a human rights angel lost her halo
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has turned into an apologist for the very generals who once locked her up, downplaying their murderous campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins absolute majority in Myanmar election
Results announced by the election commission Friday showed the National League for Democracy had won 346 seats
Unofficial results showed Tuesday the ruling National League for Democracy party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won a majority of seats in Parliament.
Suu Kyi's party claims to have won majority in Myanmar polls
Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy party claimed Monday that it has won enough seats in Parliament to constitute an absolute majority and retain power. It made the claim even though the state Union Election Commission has not yet completed releasing results from Sunday’s ...
Japan extends almost ¥43 billion in loans to Myanmar for roads and corporate finance
Of the total, ¥27.78 billion will be earmarked for a project to build a bridge on a road that crosses Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win a second term as Myanmar votes
Millions are expected to cast their ballots even as the Southeast Asian nation fights to contain a surging coronavirus epidemic.
Aung San Suu Kyi set to win again even as Myanmar’s economic dreams fade
Suu Kyi’s first year in office saw foreign direct investment hit $9.4 billion, a record, but that dropped down to $5.5 billion in the last financial year that ended on Sept. 30.
Five million young voters will be able to cast their ballots for the first time in Myanmar's election on Sunday — about 14 percent of the electorate.
More than a million people in Rakhine state, and hundreds of thousands more elsewhere, will be disenfranchised.
Anti-Rohingya hate spreads unchecked on Facebook in Malaysia
Six months after rights groups reported the material to the social media giant, many xenophobic posts targeting Rohingya in Malaysia remained on the platform.
'I don't want to lie': Openly gay candidate stands in Myanmar election
Myo Min Tun's decision to enter the political fray came after transgender friends told him how they had suffered police harassment.
As Myanmar erases names of destroyed Rohingya villages, U.N. map-makers follow suit
On maps produced in 2020 by the U.N. mapping unit in Myanmar, which it says are based on Myanmar government maps, the site of the destroyed village is now nameless.
