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 ...

Beijing seems reluctant to advertise its support for the new pseudo-civilian government in Naipyitaw—but extracts its pound of flesh from President Min Aung Hlaing just the same.