Amelie Bottollier-DepoisAung San Suu Kyi's refusal to condemn attacks on Muslims in Myanmar has dimmed the Nobel laureate's lustre among global rights campaigners, but observers say her reticence will do her no harm with voters.Nearly a month after religious riots killed 43 people in central ...

TOKYO - Myanmar's Suu Kyi arrived in Japan, her first visit to the country where she spent time as a university researcher nearly three decades ago. A group of well-wishers including Burmese gathered at Narita airport to greet her, but were denied the chance to meet her. During her 6-day trip, the ...

TOKYO - Members of Myanmar's Muslim minority Rohingya community said Thursday they have been barred from a gathering to welcome democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi when she visits Japan. Suu Kyi is expected from Saturday in her first visit to the country for nearly three decades, after time spent as a ...

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament on Sunday, her party said, after a historic by-election that is testing Myanmar's nascent reform credentials and could convince the West to end sanctions. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) party announced to loud cheers at its ...

SAGAING, Myanmar - Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi insisted she was feeling better on Sunday as she pressed on with her election campaign despite falling ill during a huge rally a day earlier. A tired-looking Suu Kyi was hailed by crowds of well-wishers shouting “May Daw ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar - Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill on Saturday as she addressed the largest crowd of her election campaign so far in the second biggest city of Mandalay.More than 100,000 people gathered to cheer on the tired-looking Nobel Peace Prize laureate as she ...

YANGON (AFP) - Pirate copies of a new film about Aung San Suu Kyi’s private life have flooded the streets of Yangon as vendors push the boundaries of new-found freedoms under a new government.Luc Besson’s “The Lady”, a two-hour biopic starring former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh, ...

DAWEI, Myanmar  - Huge crowds of jubilant supporters hailed Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail Sunday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the regime’s commitment to reform.Tens of thousands flocked to get a glimpse of the Nobel Peace Prize ...

YANGON (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conferred Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Award for Democracy on opposition leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi.PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari and high-ranking officials were present at the ceremony. On behalf of the ...

YANGON - Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has become head of her political party, a spokesman said Tuesday, as she prepares to fight by-elections to enter Myanmar's army-dominated parliament. The Nobel laureate has taken the reins of her National League for Democracy (NLD), a party she helped ...

US street artist Shepard Fairey has created a poster for Luc Bessons new film, The Lady, about Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The image is based on his previous work of Ms Suu Kyi but has been changed to represent Michelle Yeoh who plays the politician in the film. Fairey told the ...

HANNAH BEECH The special branch had chased us across the city for hours, through the haunted, betel-nut-stained streets of old Rangoon, past street-side tailors hunched over ancient sewing machines and open-air bookstalls selling worm-eaten copies of Orwell and Kipling. Unable to shake the latest ...

YANGON (AFP) - Newly freed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi called on Monday for a non-violent revolution in Myanmar as she knuckled down to the task of rebuilding her weakened opposition movement. Speaking at her party headquarters in Yangon, where she met with senior regional members for the first ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmars junta is allowing flagrant rights violations in the trial of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and must ensure proceedings are fair and open, UN human rights experts said. Media should be granted full access and relevant witnesses must be able to testify in the ...

YANGON (Reuters) - As Aung San Suu Kyis trial enters its second week, taxi driver Thein Aung offered a widely held view on its eventual outcome. Shes innocent, said the 45-year-old law graduate who drives an old Toyota on the streets of army-ruled Myanmars main city, Yangon. But Im not sure the ...

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial amid tight security at a notorious prison Monday, facing up to five more years in detention on charges of harbouring a US man who swam to her home. Dozens of supporters of the ailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate gathered near ...

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will plead her innocence when she goes on trial starting Monday, her party said as the ruling military junta freed her personal doctor from detention. The 63-year-old met her lawyer on Saturday at the notorious prison where she has been ...

YANGON  - Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday spent her 63rd birthday alone and locked under house arrest, while seven of her supporters were detained for shouting for her freedom. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has spent more than 12 years confined to her rambling ...

YANGON8 (AFP) - Myanmar's ruling junta has extended the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi by another year, an official said Tuesday, as 16 of the democracy leader's supporters were arrested. Seven Myanmar officials went to the lakeside Yangon home that has been Aung San Suu Kyi's prison for most ...