Six years ago today, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met President U Thein Sein and Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing to discuss the transfer of power to the NLD weeks after...
This week a year ago, the UEC officially announced a landslide win for the NLD in the general election, with local and foreign monitors ruling the vote free and fair.
After 10 years and two months of freedom, Myanmar’s State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is back under house arrest again.
In 1988, U Ne Win’s regime was facing a wave of popular protests that culminated in the historic ‘8888 Uprising’.
On this day in 1995, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from six years of house arrest ordered by the former junta.
As a strong defender of imperialism, Sir Winston Churchill defused any potential tension with U Nu by saying they must bury old animosities.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is 76 today as she spends a 15th birthday in captivity.
In the wake of the devastating Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar’s military sealed its political power with a new charter.
The Chinese premier visited Myanmar in 1960 to mark the Burmese new year and to bolster bilateral ties.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser visited the Thingyan festival in 1955.
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