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Myanmar state media reports that Tatmadaw-installed president Myint Swe expressed concern that the country will be divided into multiple parts if the success of the rebel offensive continues, as hundreds of soldiers are killed during the offensive.
2023-11-9

Acting President Myint Swe announces the National Defence and Security Council's extension of the country's state of emergency by six months, likely delaying the general election that was previously pledged to be held by August, saying that the country's situation has "not returned to normalcy yet".
2023-07-31

The State Administration Council of Myanmar grants an amnesty to 5,774 prisoners, including former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and Australian economist Sean Turnell, a former economic policy advisor to jailed state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
2022-11-17

Myanmar President Win Myint pardons two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had been imprisoned at Insein Prison for more than 500 days after being charged with possession of classified documents under the "Official Secrets Act". The pair were arrested in December 2017 as they were investigating the Inn Din massacre.
2019-05-7

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak leads a protest rally against the persecution of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority in the predominately Buddhist country, and calls on Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and the United Nations to address the Rohingya's plight and end the violence. Myanmar's president's office said the rally is timed for Malaysian political purposes, and that Malaysia should respect the Association of Southeast Asian Nations's principle on sovereignty.
2016-12-4

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

Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi discusses the smooth transfer of power to her National League for Democracy (NLD) party with President Thein Sein, their first public meeting since the November election. The new administration will be sworn in early next year.
2015-12-2

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 state television announces that President Thein Sein will make the first official visit to the United States, the first by a leader of that country in nearly fifty years.
2013-05-13

Myanmar's tightly controlled state newspapers call for a political amnesty indicating that reforms may soon be announced by President Thein Sein with the National Human Rights Commission recommending the pardon of some 6000 plus "prisoners of conscience".
2011-10-11