James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy ...

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar, is reported to have survived last week’s devastating earthquake unharmed in the prison cell where she is kept in solitary confinement.

The United Nations called for full amnesty for jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained since the 2021 coup as it condemned the junta’s more than 100 military strikes in the ...

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and ...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many of Myanmar’s ills welcomed in Bangkok beggars belief, writes Benedict Rogers ...

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.