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A court in Myanmar delivers its final verdict on ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's cases, sentencing her to seven years in prison, with an overall sentence of 33 years' imprisonment.
2022-12-30

Myanmar announces that it has executed four prisoners on charges of terrorism, including Zayar Thaw, a former lawmaker under ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Kyaw Min Yu.
2022-07-25

Thirty-eight protesters are shot dead and 30 more are wounded by the military and police as protests against the February 1 coup continue across the country. A meeting of ASEAN nations called for restraint of the security forces but failed to unanimously call for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
2021-03-3

Tens of thousands of people protest against the military coup in Myanmar's largest city Yangon, calling for the release of jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The protests are the largest to occur in the country's history since the 2007 Saffron Revolution.
2021-02-7

Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi asks U.S. businesses to invest in Myanmar after Barack Obama agrees to lift U.S. sanctions.
2016-09-15

Aung San Suu Kyi, now the State Counsellor of Myanmar, says she will press for the release of political prisoners and student activists in the country, hinting that a mass amnesty may be imminent, a week after her government took power.
2016-04-7

The Myanmar Assembly of the Union, or parliament, selects Htin Kyaw as the new President. Kyaw, a confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, will be the first civilian president in decades. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is constitutionally barred from the office.
2016-03-15

Voters in Myanmar head to the polls with the National League for Democracy, the party of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, expected to win a majority of seats in Parliament and the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party conceding defeat on Monday. Early indication is an 80 percent turnout of the more than 30 million people eligible to vote.
2015-11-8

Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi says she would be "above the president" if her National League for Democracy party (NLD) gets the expected win in the Sunday, November 8, 2015, election. The 2008 constitution, drafted by the military without NLD participation, bars her from becoming President.
2015-11-5

Myanmar deports and blacklists actress Michelle Yeoh who is due to depict Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie.
2011-06-28