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If walls could talk, 24 Akbar Road would write itself a book - of the days of the Raj, of the Burma of the 1960s and mostly of the dramatic ups and downs of the Congress that headquartered itself in ...

Always more than an address, the Lutyens era bungalow that witnessed many a story and secret cedes its place as a political ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a ...

Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...

She is serving a 27-year sentence after being found guilty of a variety of criminal charges brought by the military. The terms of the amnesty state that any freed detainees who reoffend will serve ...

open image in gallery A protester covered in fake blood flashes the three-finger salute next to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office ...

The freed inmates included just a small proportion of hundreds of political detainees locked up for opposing army rule since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

But there was no sign off former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since the military coup in 2021.