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.

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. has no good options in Myanmar February 2, 2021 More than 4 years ago Police stand guard outside the Union Election Commission office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Nov. 11, 2020.

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 ...

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 ...

Myanmar’s political DNA, Thant Myint-U writes, contains ideas “first formed in the days of the Victorian Empire”. He rightly also removes his main focus from Aung San Suu Kyi.