It has to do with her father, who was the hero of the country's independence, General Aung San. Burma used to be seen as one of the most promising countries in Southeast Asia, with rich resources ...

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year ... it was because she had powerful friends in the West. The Burmese military understood early on that Suu Kyi was far more than a voluble ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military ... but her apparent willingness to defend the military lost her friends around the world. If so, ...

Factoids on Aung San Suu Kyi Only two years old when her father General Aung San was assassinated in 1947, just six months before independence. Imprisoned in 2002 following a clash between her ...

An Independent TV documentary published today, entitled Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, lays bare her fall from grace. She is no longer the heroic figure she was in the long ...

Myanmar's deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from house ... Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won general elections by a landslide. The military alleged voter ...

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to miss a key UN debate ... Ms Suu Kyi had been expected to participate in discussions at the General Assembly session in New York, which runs from ...

The crisis — deemed a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations Human Rights chief — has also damaged the reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader and iconic Nobel ...