Aung San Suu Kyi[a][b] (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.
Aung San Suu Kyi (born , 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.
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In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while still under house arrest, and hailed as "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless". In 2015, she led her...
The Burmese Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the legendary liberation movement leader Aung San. Following studies abroad, she returned home in 1988. From then on, she led the opposition to the military junta that had ruled Burma since 1962.
Myanmar has reduced the sentence of imprisoned ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer told Reuters on Friday, as part of an amnesty by a new president who ousted her government in a coup...
Myanmar has reduced the 27-year prison sentence of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi by around a sixth as part of a traditional New Year’s amnesty, according to her lawyer.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the most significant and complex political figures in modern Myanmar history. Internationally recognized as a symbol of democratic resistance during decades of military rule, she later became the country’s most powerful civilian leader.