Bianca Jagger, Wild Swans author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar ...

The peace deal comes into effect on the weekend but experts aren't convinced it will lead to hostilities easing across the ...

MYANMAR’S military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the north-east have signed a formal ceasefire agreement, ...

A military jet bombed a detention area where family members of junta soldiers were held. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Congress inaugurates new AICC headquarters at 9A, Kotla Road, New Delhi, marking a historic shift from Akbar Road.

If walls could talk, 24, Akbar Road would write itself a book — of the days of the Raj, of the Burma of the 1960s and mostly of the dramatic ups and downs of the Congress that headquartered itself in ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be ... foreign secretaries called for Ms Suu Kyi to be freed by the brutal military junta ...

Ms Suu Kyi, who faces 27 years in prison, is believed to have spent long periods in solitary confinement since her arrest by the military in February 2021. Aung San Suu Kyi before her arrest (Getty) ...

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, igniting mass protests that evolved into a widespread armed rebellion on ...

Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...

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