With asking price of $142 million, no bidders for home of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu KyiThe second attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s former home in Yangon saw no bidders due to a high asking price of USD 142 million. The pr...
15 Aug, 2024, 06.53 PM IST
Reviving the age-old art of juggling, this grandfather from Myanmar is keeping the tradition aliveThe art form is thought to have begun in the early 19th century.
23 Aug, 2022, 02.19 PM IST
Myanmar junta executes two leading pro-democracy figuresMyanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media...
25 Jul, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement in prisonSince her ouster in a coup last year, Suu Kyi had been under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Naypyidaw, accompanied by several d...
23 Jun, 2022, 02.41 PM IST
Myanmar junta court delays verdict in Suu Kyi corruption trialSuu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged a coup and ousted her government in February last year, ending the Southeast Asian...
25 Apr, 2022, 02.40 PM IST
Myanmar court delays verdict in Suu Kyi incitement trialA Myanmar junta court on Tuesday postponed giving a verdict in the incitement trial of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the first ...
30 Nov, 2021, 12.01 PM IST
Detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces new charge under official secrets lawThe charge is related to the indictment of Australian economist Sean Turnell, Suu Kyi's former adviser, who has been detained for violating...
02 Apr, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
Nearly 40 people killed in Myanmar as security forces quell anti-coup protests: UN envoyThe bloodshed occurred one day after neighbouring countries had called for restraint in the aftermath of the military's overthrow of the el...
04 Mar, 2021, 12.05 AM IST
Myanmar rattled by army movements, apparent internet cutoffThere was no official word about why armoured personnel carriers traversed the streets of Yangon in broad daylight Sunday, making their way...
15 Feb, 2021, 02.25 PM IST
Suu Kyi detention extended as protests continue in MyanmarSuu Kyi's extended detention is likely to further inflame tensions between the military, which seized power in a February 1 coup, and the p...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.10 AM IST
Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup after night of fear, security patrolsEngineering students marched through downtown Yangon, the biggest city, wearing white and carrying placards demanding the release of former...
14 Feb, 2021, 11.31 AM IST
Myanmar military tightens grip as anti-coup protests enter fifth daySoldiers raided and ransacked the headquarters of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party on Tuesday night, after police shot water cannon...
10 Feb, 2021, 11.58 AM IST
The Lady vanishes: Aung San Suu Kyi back under house arrestUnder the cover of darkness early Monday, soldiers took Myanmar's de facto leader -- who became a beacon for democracy in the 1990s and a N...
02 Feb, 2021, 09.52 PM IST
Explained: All eyes on Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing as military seizes powerAs the architect of Myanmar's 2008 constitution, the military enshrined a permanent role for itself in the political system. It gets an une...
01 Feb, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
Myanmar judge jails Reuters reporters for seven years in landmark secrets caseYangon northern district judge Ye Lwin said Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, breached the colonial-era Official Secrets Act when they coll...
03 Sep, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
- Aung San Suu Kyi's son visits her in Myanmar
The youngest son of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on Tuesday at Yangon airport for a reunion with his mother for the first ...
23 Nov, 2010, 10.26 AM IST
- Myanmar troops fire warning shots in air
Soldiers in Myanmar pounded down on dissent Friday by swiftly breaking up street gatherings of die-hard activists, occupying key Buddhist m...
28 Sep, 2007, 04.17 PM IST