He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

For many women in Myanmar, conjoined economic and security crises mean never being able to let their guard down and never being able to think more than “one day at a time.” ...

The release is designed to reinforce the legitimacy of the incoming “civilian” administration and communicate signals of reform to foreign governments.

A raft of political prisoners were freed after being convicted under the scattergun law of “harboring or financing” terrorists, but senior democratic figures remain in jail.