Myanmar frees Aung San Suu Kyi ally, stirs faint hopes for democracyMyanmar's military leadership has pardoned former president Win Myint. This move raises questions about the fate of detained leader Aung Sa...
18 Apr, 2026, 11.11 AM IST
Myanmar cuts Aung San Suu Kyi sentence, frees former presidentMyanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced. This comes as part of an amnesty granted by the new president. Suu K...
17 Apr, 2026, 01.52 PM IST
Myanmar leader commutes all death sentencesMyanmar's leader commuted all death sentences in a blanket order on Friday, one of his first official acts since the 2021 coup leader was i...
17 Apr, 2026, 10.35 AM IST
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing sworn in as presidentMyanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has become president. This follows a military coup five years ago. He took power after an election ex...
10 Apr, 2026, 12.00 PM IST
Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from a Myanmar prison to house arrest due to heat waveAung San Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners...
17 Apr, 2024, 10.02 AM IST
Former UK envoy to Myanmar Vicky Bowman, husband jailed for allegedly breaching immigration laws, now releasedIn September, Vicky Bowman and her spouse, the Burmese artist Htein Lin, received a year in prison for allegedly breaking Myanmar's Immigra...
17 Nov, 2022, 05.23 PM IST
Myanmar releases foreigners including Australian economist Sean Turnell from prisonMyanmar Now, an independent news outlet, cited the military council as saying the pardons were granted because it was Myanmar National Day....
17 Nov, 2022, 09.03 AM IST
Eight killed as parcel bombs and gunfire rock Myanmar's biggest jailThe seriously injured were evacuated from the prison, while others were treated at nearby shops. A number of cases scheduled to be heard in...
19 Oct, 2022, 06.30 PM IST
Aung San Suu Kyi convicted again, Australian economist Sean Turnell gets 3 yearsAung San Suu Kyi received a three-year sentence after being tried and convicted with Turnell under the secrets law, said the official, who ...
29 Sep, 2022, 10.37 AM IST
India pitches for Myanmar's early return to democracyThese issues were on top of agenda when foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited the country on December 22-23. During his meetings...
24 Dec, 2021, 08.45 AM IST
Crowds outside Myanmar's prisons greet freed detaineesThe head of the army-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, announced the amnesty covering more than 5,600 people on Monday. St...
20 Oct, 2021, 11.05 AM IST
Myanmar military court sentences journalists to jailAung Kyaw, 31, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Zaw Zaw, 38, a freelance reporter for the online news agency Mizzima, were...
03 Jun, 2021, 06.05 PM IST
Escalating Myanmar violence 'unacceptable': UN chief"It is absolutely unacceptable to see violence against people at such high levels, so many people killed, and such a stubborn refusal to ac...
29 Mar, 2021, 10.39 PM IST
Six killed in protests in Myanmar as U.S., allies vow to restore democracyThree people were killed and several injured when police opened fire on a sit-in protest in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city, two wi...
13 Mar, 2021, 03.40 PM IST
- World powers push Myanmar on political reforms
World powers on Saturday called on Myanmar's military rulers to make "tangible" progress on political reforms ahead of a planned visit by U...
28 Sep, 2008, 08.03 AM IST
- India urged to pressure Myanmar
An international forum urged Asian powers India and China on Thursday to exert greater pressure on the military junta in neighbouring Myanm...
17 Jan, 2008, 08.39 PM IST
- UN Security Council'strongly deplores' Myanmar crackdown
In its first public statement on Myanmar unrest, the UN Security Council has “strongly deplored” the use of violence by the military junta ...
13 Oct, 2007, 12.11 AM IST