Hundreds of prisoners, including a former government minister and a model, walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, a week after the start of an ...

The pardons are designed to ensure maximum support for the upcoming election, which has been widely criticized as a sham process designed to support military rule. Myanmar’s military junta has ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced other inmates’ sentences Sunday to mark the 78th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain ...

Hundreds of prisoners were released in Myanmar on Sunday under an independence day pardon, just a week after the start of a junta-run election widely condemned as a sham. Hundreds of prisoners walked ...