Boomtoom Rats frontman and charity campaigner Bob Geldof has described Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as a “pig” and “handmaiden to ethnic cleansing”.

Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called the military's investigation into the deaths of Rohingya Muslims found in a mass grave a "positive indication", according to reports.

Many times during the recent exchanges between Bob Geldof and Dublin City Council on the heated issue of sharing the Freedom of the City of Dublin with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Mr Geldof reminded us ad nauseam that he is a proud ‘Dub’.

Bob Geldof has urged Sinn Féin to "grow up" after claiming members made insulting comments about his decision to return the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

Bob Geldof uses his celebrity as a battering ram, but he usually gets results, writes Michael Clifford.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom of Dublin award could be rescinded tonight.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.

Dublin will start removing the Freedom of the City from Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi today.

Burma and Bangladesh have signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Burma's Rakhine state.

Burma has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to "dehumanising apartheid", Amnesty International has said in a report.

He was a freeman of the city but he was also a slave to his conscience.

Aung San Suu Kyi has "duped" Ireland, Bob Geldof has said as he returned his freedom of Dublin in protest.

Latest: Bob Geldof has officially handed back his Freedom of the City of Dublin award.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it is "an absolutely essential priority" to stop all violence against Burma's Rohingya Muslims, allow them to return to their homes, and grant them legal status.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited the conflict-torn area of northern Rakhine state for the first time since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled the area.

Burma's embattled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has called for national unity and created a committee that will coordinate all international and local assistance in violence-hit Rakhine state.

Bob Geldof has delivered searing criticism of a number of world leaders, saying he is "sick of them".

Aung San Suu Kyi has given an assurance that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled Myanmar will be allowed to return, a British Foreign Office Minister has said.

Amnesty International has claimed that Myanmar security forces and local vigilante mobs are still burning Rohingya villages in Burma, despite assertions by the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi that they had stopped.

Many believed nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi  had the qualities of which greatness are made. Perhaps, in hindsight, it is now clear Mammmy Suu only had the qualities of which power is made, argues Victoria White. 

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has cancelled plans to attend the UN General Assembly, a government spokesman said as the country draws international criticism over violence against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.

Daughter comes home from her first day at fashion school, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

AT this remove it is always impossible to be certain that our understanding of a conflict is accurate.

About 164,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh since violence erupted in Burma on August 25, the UN's refugee agency said.

A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma has capsized, drowning at least five people, as the UN said the crisis has pushed more than 125,000 refugees into Bangladesh.

Activist Malala Yousafzai has said she is "so excited" after gaining a place at the University of Oxford.

Still reeling from the decision to make Wonder Woman a UN ambassador for gender equality, Suzanne Harrington pays tribute to the real wonder women of our time.

Burmese politicians and activists shocked by the assassination of an adviser to leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered on Monday at a cemetery for an emotional funeral ceremony.

A legal adviser for the National League for Democracy (NLD) has been assassinated at a Burma airport after returning from a trip overseas, the government said.

Burma's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is suffering from weakness and exhaustion after two weeks of travel to Britain and the United States.

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that her government plans to release all political prisoners as quickly as possible, making the declaration her first act in her newly created job as state counsellor.

The commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s armed forces yesterday stressed the need for the military to remain a political force.

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

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

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.

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Myanmar's opposition party has won all of the first 12 parliamentary seats declared in the country's first free general election in 25 years.