The Burma Campaign UK rights group has calculated that the Nobel laureate has spent 19 years in captivity since 1989 as her ...

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San ...

In Seoul, police faced overwhelming resistance while attempting to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol, who is under ...

Trump is likely to view Bangladesh’s interim government, particularly Dr. Yunus, with the same suspicion and hostility that Biden’s administration held toward Myanmar’s former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi ...

He has also called for an end to the violence, humanitarian relief for those in need, and the release of political prisoners, including jailed civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. In an unprecedented ...

That fall from grace is now the subject of a documentary on Independent TV called Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, charting her life including her political emergence in the 1980s ...

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said.

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno Reporting ...

The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love. English continues to expand into ...

That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before, the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in the general election ...