The arrested men “failed to contribute their artistic expertise towards the success of the upcoming election”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The First Minister used a speech to paint Nigel Farage’s party as a threat in a bid to drive voters to the SNP.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Political parties in military-run Myanmar on Tuesday kicked off their election campaigns, two months ahead of ...

Freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 80th birthday forgotten in a jail cell. Do not forsake her - COMMENT: A decade ago ...

In Myanmar, when the military has a hard time conscripting enough residents into their ranks, they turn to monks for help.

Myanmar’s junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) has banned campaign rallies and street processions for the December polls, citing security concerns. Instead, parties will be restricted to ...

For a Committee that belongs to the West to continue to dole out prizes for championing democracy in the non-West appears ...

“We can’t hold the election everywhere 100%,” Min Aung Hlaing said in a speech that was broadcast on state media ... of Democracy (NLD), led by jailed Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But her ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance ...

Kim Aris, son of Myanmar's imprisoned pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, called on Chinese President Xi Jinping for intervention to liberate his mother. Aris has recently sought global leaders' help ...

For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the spotlight and kept his silence. He avoided the media even as they ...