Others like Min Aung Myint Myat, 15, explained that he had to help out at his family’s farm and did not have much opportunity to study during the lockdown. The Wei Paung Post-Primary School ...

The National Unity Government must be honest with the public about what the recent arrest warrant application does – and does ...

Myanmar’s military government must release jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. The Foreign Secretary said Britain had “not forgotten” those ...

It is the first call for her freedom from a serving cabinet minister since she was sentenced and follows the recent release of an Independent TV documentary Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung ...

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 ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon on Feb. 15, 2021. (Photo: AFP) Earlier this ...

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