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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vast quantities of timber from Myanmar continue to enter the United States despite sanctions on the country’s state-controlled timber monopoly, according to a new report from U.K.-based watchdog ...