Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar rebels claim to have shot down a fighter jet being used by military to attack ground targets
BANGKOK (AP) — A military fighter jet crashed and burned Tuesday in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar's civil war, with a rebel group claiming to...
Bangladesh scuffle picture misrepresented as Myanmar unrest
Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven with ethnic and religious divisions. Burmese Facebook posts in January...
‘My conscripted husband is now dead’: How Myanmar’s war is killing civilians
The last time Chaw Su saw her husband was in March, when he was forcibly conscripted to fight for the army in Myanmar's civil war.Four months later, she found...
Strife-torn Myanmar marks 77th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes,...
New players emerge in fighting in Myanmar’s northeast, as powerful ethnic militias intervene
BANGKOK (AP) — Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as...
Tin Oo, co-founder of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies at 97
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...
Myanmar quietly announces plans to study controversial Chinese dam project suspended 13 years ago
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after...