The commenter’s reaction about the premature unveiling of the flag was the same sentiment of the opposition. The flag is supposed to be released only after the conduct of the November 7 elections. The ...

The country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was absent from the event for a fifth consecutive year since her arrest in February 2021 following a coup d'état.View on euronews ...

Myanmar resistance fighters on Monday burned the flag used by the military government and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold ...

It commemorates the assassination of Aung San, a former Prime Minister who was gunned down at the age of 32 along with six Cabinet colleagues and two other officials in 1947, just months before the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo officials joined others Saturday in Niagara Square to raise the Burmese flag outside of City Hall. The annual ceremony recognizes the advent of democracy in Burma, which ...

But in 1989, one year after the ruling junta brutally suppressed a pro-democracy uprising, military leaders suddenly changed its name to Myanmar. By then, Burma was an international pariah ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Mayor Byron Brown joined the local Burmese community for a Burmese flag raising ceremony on Saturday morning at Buffalo City Hall. The ceremony happening at 10 a.m. in Niagara ...

But even Washington has mellowed its stance. In 2012, during a visit to the country, then-President Obama used both “Burma” and “Myanmar.” ...