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The EU will continue to denounce all attempts to overturn the will of the Myanmar people and to alter the outcome of the last general elections, the statement said

Initially, she was charged with illegally importing six walkie-talkie radios Later, a charge of violating a natural disaster law by breaching coronavirus protocols was added Myanmar has been in chaos since the military seized power after alleging fraud in a November election won by Suu Kyi`s NLD in a landslide

The ruling NLD party won an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in the last general elections on Nov 8, 2015, and has been running the government since 2016 The 2020 general elections are the third election under the country`s 2008 Constitution The US and other observers have expressed concern about how the election was conducted, especially the disenfranchisement of the Rohingya minority

Chit Tin, a 55-year-old Muslim man has prayed at the same madrassa in eastern Yangon his whole adult life, most of it spent under a junta that crushed opposition, ruined Myanmar`s economy and turned it into an international pariah state.

An official working for Aung San Suu Kyi`s government was sentenced to six months in jail by a Yangon court Friday for criticising Myanmar`s army chief in a Facebook post.

Aung San Suu Kyi`s government will face its first test at the ballot box on Saturday in by-elections around Myanmar seen as a barometer for growing disillusionment with her party a year after it took office.

A top Muslim lawyer who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was deliberately targeted, Myanmar's ruling party has said, describing the assassination as a "terrorist act" against their policies.

State Counselor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on a three-day visit to India, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today.India and Myanmar have been trying to give bilateral ties a more strategic approach after the National League for Democracy under the leadership of Suu Kyi came to power in Myanmar in March this year.

Sanctions were imposed on Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in 1997 after decades under a military dictatorship that stifled dissent and showed little regard for human rights.  

Myanmar will not allow its territory to be used for any anti-India activities, this was conveyed by Myanmarese leaders to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who assured "all help" to the new government that came to power in March after decades of military rule.

Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is facing criticism from rights groups and student activists who say her ruling party is planning to retain restrictions on free speech once wielded against it by the country`s former junta.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Monday vowed to press for greater autonomy for the nation's ethnic minorities, in an early move to soothe the rebellions roiling the country after her party's ascent to power.

Myanmar`s Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday vowed to press for greater autonomy for the nation`s ethnic minorities, in an early move to soothe the rebellions roiling the country after her party`s ascent to power.

Myanmar`s Aung Sang Suu Kyi underwent successful eye surgery Saturday, a senior party official said, weeks after the 70-year-old`s fledgling administration took power.

Myanmar`s new government released scores of jailed activists on Friday, just over a week after assuming power, and said it was preparing to pardon 100 more people serving sentences for political offences.

Last November`s polls, the freest in decades, saw her party rake in 80 percent of available parliament seats, giving them a massive public mandate.

Myanmar`s president-elect Htin Kyaw nominated Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading.

 Aung San Suu Kyi was nominated to join the cabinet in Myanmar's incoming government today, giving the democracy veteran a formal position in the administration, despite being blocked from the presidency.

Myanmar`s president-elect has nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the cabinet formed by her National League for Democracy (NLD), the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, after the party swept to a historic election victory in November.

Myanmar President-elect U Htin Kyaw will submit a list of nominees for cabinet posts to the Union Parliament on Thursday for approval, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) announced on Monday.