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Aung San Suu Kyis National League for Democracy won enough seats in Parliament to return to power for a second five-year term (AFP Photo)

Official Myanmar vote count affirms Suu Kyi's party control By Pyae...

The NLD won 346 seats in the combined lower and upper houses of the legislature, far above the 322 needed to secure a...

13 Nov 2020 1:02 PM IST

Buddhist monks lead an anti-coup protest march in Mandalay, Myanmar on Feb. 27, 2021. CRPH in the placards stand for Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. (AP)

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to face court after deadly crackdown

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to streets regularly over the past month to oppose the coup

1 March 2021 11:31 AM IST

A convoy of army vehicles patrol the streets in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (AP)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Future unclear in Suu Kyi country: Do generals...

Like all those who stage coups, the Tatmadaw says it will hold a 'free and fair general election' after the emergency...

4 Feb 2021 7:38 AM IST

A group of Myanmar activists hold the portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside UN building in Tokyo on February 1, 2021 following a military coup in the country by a general after arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior officials. (Philip FONG / AFP)

Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi

It justified the coup by alleging 'huge irregularities' in the November polls that the election commission had failed to...

1 Feb 2021 11:24 AM IST

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One year on: what do Myanmar's people think of Suu Kyi?

Many activists have expressed acute concern about a spike in the number of online defamation prosecutions since the NLD...

30 March 2017 10:50 AM IST

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Suu Kyi's new govt faces first test at Myanmar bypolls

Myanmar's economic and political elite, including the NLD, have long been dominated by the majority Bamar ethnicity.

1 April 2017 5:35 PM IST