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AUNG SAN SUU KYI

A demonstrator holds up an image of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Bangkok in February 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 9, 2026
Myanmar says ASEAN¡¯s call for Suu Kyi release is interference
Myanmar¡¯s military-backed government says demands to release ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi are interfering with the country¡¯s judicial process.
Myanmar's detained former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Arnaude de Baecque, resident representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Myanmar, in Naypyidaw.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 3, 2026
Myanmar¡¯s Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, government says
The Nobel Peace ?Prize winner has been in detention since February 2021, when an elected civilian government she led was ousted by Myanmar¡¯s military in a dawn coup.
A national flag is raised next to a statue of Myanmar's independence Gen. Aung San at Thu Mingalar Park in Yangon on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 18, 2026
Founding father: statues of Myanmar¡¯s Aung San disappear
Analysts say the removals may be an attempt to erase from public spaces a powerful symbol linked to Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained democracy figurehead.
Anti-coup protesters carry a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed civilian leader, during a march in Yangon, Myanmar, in February 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 13, 2026
Myanmar tells ASEAN ¡®sister¡¯ Aung San Suu Kyi will be looked after, envoy says
Top ?diplomats of the 11-member Southeast Asian bloc met with their Myanmar counterpart for the first time since the coup, in an effort to kick-start a peace ?initiative.
Myanmar protesters residing in Japan show a placard of detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally outside Myanmar's embassy in Tokyo last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 3, 2026
Searching for Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar¡¯s capital of confusion
Naypyitaw is a labyrinth of anonymous compounds connected by deserted 20-lane highways through tracts of jungle and paddy.
Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at an undisclosed location in this undated image released Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 1, 2026
Myanmar moves Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest
A statement from the office of Min Aung Hlaing said he had ¡°commuted the remaining sentence¡± of the 80-year-old Suu Kyi ¡°to be served at the designated residence.¡±
Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow (left) sits with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing during a meeting in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 23, 2026
Myanmar ¡®considering good things¡¯ for detained Suu Kyi, Thai chief envoy reports
The country¡¯s leader Min Aung Hlaing last week pardoned Suu Kyi¡¯s top aide Win Myint, who was swept into custody along with her in a 2021 coup.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a national address in Naypyidaw in September 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 18, 2026
Little hope for Myanmar democracy despite release of Suu Kyi aide
Former President Win Myint¡¯s pardon on Friday was the biggest concession yet by the country¡¯s post-coup leadership headed by Min Aung Hlaing.
Myanmar President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrive to attend a reception in Naypyidaw in February 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2026
Myanmar reduces ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi¡¯s sentence and frees former president
Suu Kyi, 80, was serving ?a 27-year sentence for a litany of offences her allies said ?were ?politically motivated to keep her at bay.
Military chief Min Aung Hlaing visits a polling station during the third and final phase of Myanmar's general election in Mandalay on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 25, 2026
Why is Myanmar¡¯s junta holding an election during a civil war?
Most analysts see the election as ?a way for the military, which has governed Myanmar for much of the past six decades, to entrench its rule via proxies.
Members of the Union Election commission prepare to count ballots after the polls closed at a polling station during the second phase of Myanmar¡¯s general election in Yangon on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 13, 2026
Pacts, patronage and fear: How Myanmar¡¯s junta chief holds on to power
His name isn¡¯t on the ballet and he doesn¡¯t appear on campaign posters, but Min Aung Hlaing looms large over the country¡¯s general election.
A woman holds a placard with a portrait of Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally protesting against Myanmar's general election staged by the country's military government, outside the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 11, 2026
Sequestered Suu Kyi overshadows military-run Myanmar election
The second of the three-phase election began Sunday, with Suu Kyi¡¯s constituency of Kawhmu outside Yangon being contested by parties cleared to run in the heavily restricted poll.
Ma Yamin Htwe, 19, sells her hair at a wig-making shop near Yangon on Dec. 24.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 28, 2025
Myanmar¡¯s election is derided as fake, but the nation¡¯s suffering is all too real
The vote, the first since the 2021 coup, has been almost universally dismissed as political playacting.
Voters line up inside a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election, in Yangon on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 28, 2025
Myanmar polls open amid civil war, with junta-backed party tipped to win
The election has been derided by ?critics as an exercise that is not free, fair or credible, ?with anti-junta political ?parties not competing.
Campaign billboards in Pyin Oo Lwin, in Myanmar's Mandalay region, on Dec. 9. Analysts and diplomats say the aim of establishing a stable administration in the Southeast Asian nation is far-fetched ?since the ?civil war is still raging.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 25, 2025
Myanmar junta¡¯s shift from battlefield to ballots faces long odds
Analysts and diplomats say the aim of establishing a stable administration in the Southeast Asian nation is far-fetched ?since the ?civil war is still raging.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of Myanmar, has been in military custody since a 2021 coup deposed her government.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 8, 2025
Former Myanmar leader Suu Kyi¡¯s health worsening in military custody, son says
The prominent pro-democracy leader has been in military custody since a 2021 coup deposed her government.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks during a news conference last month.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2025
Â鶹´«Ã½ foreign minister urges Myanmar to restore democracy
Japan strongly urges Myanmar¡¯s military to ¡°swiftly restore the country¡¯s democratic political system,¡± Iwaya told a news conference.
A policeman walks on a street in Yangon on July 19, 2025, on the 78th Martyrs' Day marking the anniversary of the assassination of independence leaders, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the currently deposed and imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2025
Myanmar junta ends 4?-year state of emergency in election run-up
Opposition groups have pledged to boycott the election, which monitors say will be used to consolidate the military¡¯s power.
People participate in a rally in support of Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 19, 2025
Myanmar¡¯s Aung San Suu Kyi marks 80th birthday in junta jail
No formal celebrations are planned in junta-held parts of Myanmar, but followers in military-controlled Mandalay city staged a spontaneous protest ahead of her birthday.
Myanmar's junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2025
Myanmar junta chief to make rare trip abroad to Bangkok
Since seizing power in a February 2021 coup, Min Aung Hlaing has mostly only traveled to close allies Russia and China.
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Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Putin visits disputed Etorofu island off Hokkaido, sparking protest from Tokyo
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Yasny fish processing factory on Etorofu island, one of four islands in the contested chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on Thursday.
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

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