“The fight to free my mother Aung San Suu Kyi from her illegal imprisonment in Burma [Myanmar] will never cease. “She is a symbol of my country in her prison cell, a candle that flickers and ...

"Burma is currently the largest hub of organized ... who is serving a 27-year prison sentence. Last November, the International Criminal Court prosecutor requested an arrest warrant against ...

By then, Burma was an international pariah ... but opposition leaders were freed from prison and house arrest, and elections were allowed. Longtime pro-democracy activist Suu Kyi became the ...

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...

To people who come to Burma for the first time there are two things about the status of our women that seem to impress them with particular force. My foreign friends have often told me that they ...

Both men said they had drawn to the novel for how it chimed with the World War Two prison camp experiences ... had been even worked on the Thailand-Burma railway line, and spent many years as ...