Kalo Say Htoo, an organizer of the birthday video campaign, said the original goal was to collect 80,000 greeting videos to ...

While Suu Kyi remains hugely popular in the majority Buddhist country, her status as a democracy icon abroad collapsed before the military takeover after she defended generals in their crackdown ...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son aims for world record 80,000 messages to honour her 80th birthday The pro-democracy Nobel Peace Prize winner has been in prison since a military coup in 2021 Rebecca Thomas ...

YANGON—Myanmar’s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving ...

Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 today. She should be nearing the end of her second term in government and considering retirement. Instead, she languishes in a prison ...

As supporters plan tributes for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th, the regime’s anxious response recalls an earlier birthday gesture that unnerved the generals.

Locked away birthday Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar independence hero Aung San, became a champion of democracy almost by accident. After spending much of her youth abroad, she returned in 1988 ...

Myanmar's deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving a raft of sentences set to last the rest of her life.

Ms Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero General Aung San, who was assassinated in July 1947, spent nearly 15 years between 1989 and 2010 under house arrest.