An Independent TV documentary published today, entitled Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, lays bare her fall from grace. She is no longer the heroic figure she was in the long ...

Bianca Jagger, Wild Swans author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar ...

CHINA: Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Prime Minister Li Keqiang yesterday on a five-day visit to build ties with Beijing. Resuming work on the £2.7 billion Myitsone hydroelectric dam ...

Pope Francis has appealed for the release of Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and even offered to shelter her ...

Fears the project will be revived have sparked a new wave of protests. In late April, as Aung San Suu Kyi was in Beijing for a summit on Chinese foreign investment, thousands took to the streets ...

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Our greatest challenge is to address the roots of distrust and fear, prejudice and hate" The spectacle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a once-persecuted Nobel peace laureate now defending ...

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year, is locked in a jungle jail with no prospect of release, while the army with whom she had shared power since 2016 fights a brutal civil war on ...

The head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be freed. Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College ...

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said.

The ceasefire between the military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), which seized large tracts of ...

The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military regime in Myanmar. Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and Wild Swans ...