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

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

Foreign ministry secretary-general Amran Zin says the suggestion has been put forward by several member states.

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

Over 40 people including women and children were killed in air attacks by Myanmar military in the western state of Rakhine ...

Synopsis: Join The Straits Times’ senior columnist Ravi Velloor, as he distils his experience from four decades of covering ...

ROME--Pope Francis has called for the liberation of Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and offered the Vatican as a safe haven, the pontiff said in a recent ...

Myanmar remains one of the region’s most pressing challenges, demanding ASEAN’s collective attention and decisive action to ...

An overnight landslide at a jade mining area in northern Myanmar has killed at least a dozen people and left many others ...

Over 40 civilians, including women and children, were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state due to military air attacks. The ...

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the ...