To mark detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th birthday, The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the key events in ...

Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned 80 Thursday, more than four years after she was jailed following a ...

The democratic icon, along with many other aging National League for Democracy figures, is suffering from ill health.

Despite decades of imprisonment and vilification, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi still commands what Myanmar’s generals never could: ...

As supporters plan tributes for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th, the regime’s anxious response recalls an earlier birthday gesture that unnerved the generals.

Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 today. She should be nearing the end of her second term in ...

Leaked prison logs from early 2024 have provided rare insight into the tightly controlled life of Aung San Suu Kyi, the ...

Once a global icon of democracy, her plight now draws diminishing international outrage. Yet even as the West looks away, ...

On 19 June, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Burmese democratic leader will turn 80 in prison, where she has been held ...

Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar) Birth name: Aung San ...

Aung San Suu Kyi poses for a portrait at the National ... A video of her appearing in a courtroom shows Ms Suu Kyi sitting with former president Win Myint. They are wearing white face masks ...

Former intelligence officers, generals and ex-officials continue to publish propaganda books aimed at promoting military rule ...