2 days ago · YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was unsuccessful Wednesday as the prospect of paying tens of millions of dollars for a property in a country embroiled in a civil war failed to attract any bidders.. It was the third attempt to sell the lakeside property where Suu Kyi had been held under house ...

2 days ago · FILE - Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk through the garden after meetings at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon ...

2 days ago · A man rides bicycle while a fruit vendor pushes his cart outside the residence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the home is auctioned in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

2 days ago · The two-story colonial-style building on Inye Lake in Yangon, the country’s largest city, was given decades ago by the government to Suu Kyi’s mother, Khin Kyi, after her husband, independence ...

On 21 December 2011, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, marking Aung San Suu Kyi's "first-ever meeting with the leader of a foreign country". [ 177 ] On 5 January 2012, British Foreign Minister William Hague met Aung San Suu Kyi and his Burmese counterpart.

Apr 17, 2024 · Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said. On Wednesday it also granted amnesty for over 3,000 prisoners …

Jan 25, 2024 · The decision by a district court in Yangon, the country’s largest city, came nearly 1 1/2 years after the Supreme Court upheld a special appeal lodged by Suu Kyi’s estranged older brother, Aung San Oo, granting him half ownership of the family property that the siblings inherited in Yangon.

Nov 25, 2024 · YANGON – A court in army-ruled Myanmar on Friday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentenced her to seven more years in prison, wrapping up the last remaining...

Jan 17, 2025 · Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]) is a politician and opposition leader of Myanmar, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991.

Mar 20, 2024 · Her lakeside home at 54 University Avenue, Yangon, is almost as famous as Aung San Suu Kyi herself. She grew up in it, and in 1988 began her long campaign for democracy from it, using it as...