Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom of Dublin award could be rescinded tonight. City councillors are meeting to discuss calls to remove the honour she has held for 17 years.

Pope Francis has met Burma's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and told her the country's future depends on respecting the rights of "each ethnic group".

Burma’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of her Freedom of Oxford award.

The United States is declaring that the violence against Rohingya Muslims in Burma constitutes ethnic cleansing.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has made clear to foreign diplomats, it does not matter if they call her country Myanmar or its old name, Burma.

More than 100 political prisoners have been freed in Burma under an amnesty ordered by the country's new de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as her first official act.

Burma's president-elect has proposed an 18-member Cabinet which will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who campaigned for decades to replace the military junta with a democratically elected government.

A long-time confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi has been confirmed in a parliamentary vote as one of the three final candidates to be Burma's next president, albeit as a proxy for the Nobel laureate.

The party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi officially confirmed yesterday that she will not become Burma’s next president.

Burma’s parliament has begun a new and historic session dominated by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, which will install the country’s first democratically-elected government in more than 50 years.

Burma’s transition to greater democracy after decades of military rule surged ahead as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party continued its election sweep and the government promised a peaceful transition of power.

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has hinted at a victory for her party in historic elections – and urged supporters not to provoke their losing rivals.

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she will be the true power above the country’s president if her party wins historic elections this Sunday.