吴丹（1909-1974）是缅甸政治家和国际外交家，曾任联合国秘书长。1974年，吴丹的葬礼引发了民众反对军人统治的抗议。

YANGON, Myanmar — A home that once belonged to a former United Nations secretary-general, the late U Thant, is being restored and will open as a new museum in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

In Thant Myint-U’s telling, there was more to Myanmar’s opening in 2011 than a simple liberal conversion. Thein Sein’s reforms had many interconnected motivations, but the one common denominator was ...

YANGON, Myanmar — A memo sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this summer gave the green light for a tough U.S. response to systematic slayings and mass expulsions against Myanmar’s minority ...

Thant Myint-U: The protests show clearly the strength of public opinion against military rule. ... Myanmar’s economy is increasingly tied to China’s, as a provider of primary commodities.

Thant Myint-U, who formerly served in roles at the U.N. and as a government adviser in Myanmar, recalled how the country's long-standing insulation from the outside world has shielded its elite ...

UNITED NATIONS --The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a statement Monday strongly condemning the violence that has caused more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar to ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. will impose fresh sanctions against military leaders in Myanmar in response to the military coup there earlier this month, in what President Biden called the U.S.’s push ...

The Myanmar embassy in China did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U Myo Thant Pe was appointed ambassador to China in 2019 and stayed in his post after Myanmar’s military took ...

THANT MYINT-U, AUTHOR, “THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF BURMA”: You know, I think on the one hand, the ICJ case has focused a lot of tension inside the country on what happened in the Northern Rakhine ...

U.S. officials have been concerned that pushing Myanmar's leaders too hard on the Rohingya violence could undermine the country's civilian government, led for the last 18 months by Suu Kyi.