Newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing also announced a reduction in the 27-year prison sentence of ousted former leader ...

The ousted president’s release offers a rare moment of relief, but with the State Counselor still behind bars, it looks more like political theater than reconciliation.

More than 4,500 prisoners in Myanmar have been granted amnesty and others have had their sentences reduced under a pardon ...

U Win Myint is a close ally of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s civilian leader. Both were forced from power by the ...

Thingyan amnesty also trimmed a few years off Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s decades-long sentence, as the new military-installed regime scrambles for legitimacy.

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced. This comes as part of an amnesty granted by the new ...

Myanmar's leader commuted all death sentences in a blanket order on Friday, one of his first official acts since the 2021 ...

FILE PHOTO: Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Maria Theresa P. Lazaro (left) and Myanmar’s State Security and Peace Commission Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hliang met in Naypyitaw on Jan 6, ...

Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa P. Lazaro (left) and Myanmar’s State Security and Peace Commission Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hliang. Credit: Philippines’ Department of Foreign ...

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Friday that China congratulates Min Aung Hlaing on his election as president of Myanmar. The congratulations were extended after Min Aung Hlaing secured ...

Min Aung Hlaing seized control five years ago and plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos Min Aung Hlaing, the military general who plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos when he ...

YANGON-When Myanmar’s military ousted a democratically elected government in a dawn coup on Feb 1, 2021, General Ye Win Oo led the contingent of troops that arrested Nobel Peace Prize winner and the ...