It looks like the attempts made by the US President Barack Obama and the ASEAN leaders to convince Myanmar for releasing Aung San Suu Kyi have not been successful. Obama had urged Myanmar to release the opposition leader while he met the Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein during the ASEAN meet on ...

The pro-democratic opposition leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has appealed before the apex court of the nation against her 18-month house arrest sentence.
 
Her detention in her Yangon family home was extended by a special Insein prison court in August after she was found guilty of ...

According to senior Myanmar diplomat, the Myanmar government may free the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi before the 2010 elections.
 
These remarks of Min Lwin, who is a Myanmar government official, comes during an overseas visit which goes in hands with the needs of the junta that Suu ...

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell held meeting with the Myanmar premier Thein Sein and the opposition leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi. He is the first US official of high ranking to visit Myanmar in 14 years.
 
US Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel and Campbell met the ...

US President Barack Obama has asked the Myanmar's ruling stratocracy to immediately release human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi. She had received an additional 18 months of detainment on Tuesday as she had been accused of violating the terms of her house arrest.
 
Obama had issued a ...

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, currently on trial for breaking the terms of her house detention, now faces a civil court case in which she must fight for ownership of her house, her lawyer said Tuesday.
 
Suu Kyi's cousin, retired army officer Lieutenant Colonel Khin Maung Aye, ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese pro-democracy activist and leader, was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace in Durban.
 
The award is given annually by the Gandhi Development Trust, an organisation started in 2002 by Ela Gandhi, a granddaughter of the ...

The Myanmar government has hinted that in six months’ time the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be set free from house arrest because the prevalent laws permit maximum detention for a period of six years. 

George Yeo, the Foreign Minister of Singapore said that Nyan Win, his ...

The United Nations chief, Mr Ban Ki Moon returned to New York on Monday 26 May after a visit to the disaster-hit zones in Burma and China. While in Burma, Ban Ki Moon had also attended an international donors conference, in which millions of dollars were given to Burma as aid for the reconstruction ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s most prominent political prisoner was due to be freed from her house arrest on 26 May in Burma. But the widespread disaster which envelopes the country at present because of the recent powerful cyclone Nargis has caused this event to go majorly unnoticed. During ...

Noble Peace Prize winner and Myanmar\'s pro democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi will be conferred the Honorary Citizenship award by the Canadian government. Aung San Suu Kyi has been in Myanmar for 18 years out of which she has spent 12 years under house arrest. The honor is being awarded to her ...