In February 2025, Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing reshuffled key military positions, mirroring the succession strategy of former military leader Than Shwe. By promoting younger officers and ...

According to Mohamad, the chairman of the National Administrative Council (SAC) Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Myanmar Foreign Minister U Than Shwe also expressed their appreciation to Malaysia ...

Mohamad and Maris also held a meeting with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister U Than Shwe. Mohamad said Malaysia’s task after this is to find appropriate steps to send a medical team to Myanmar after ...

According to Mohamad, the chairman of the National Administrative Council (SAC) Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Myanmar Foreign Minister U Than Shwe also expressed their appreciation to ...

Following the meeting, Mohamad and Maris also met with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister U Than Shwe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs compound in the capital. During the session, U Than Shwe showed the ...

Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan and his Thai counterpart Maris Sangiampongsa met Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and Foreign Minister Than Shwe, Bernama news agency reported.

Than Shwe, an erratic, superstitious leader who harbored a deep antipathy toward her, and even reportedly used black magic rituals against her. “I don’t want to portray [Than Shwe] as a brutal ...

Mohamad and Maris are scheduled to meet with Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing and foreign minister U Than Shwe. The two ministers will also receive a briefing from the Asean ...

Under the rule of equally superstitious military strongman Than Shwe, authorities in 2007 instructed farmers in an area north of the commercial capital Yangon to plant sunflowers, The Irrawaddy ...

Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was appointed as a successor by the junta dictator Than Shwe to the post of military chief. With the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy winning the 2015 ...

Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press show the earthquake toppled the air traffic control tower at Naypyitaw International Airport ...