The Directors’ Guild of Japan has called on authorities in Myanmar to release filmmaker Maung Thein Dan. He has been detained and jailed pending a trial. Myanmar was wracked by a military coup ...

The Directors’ Guild of Japan has called on authorities in Myanmar to release filmmaker Maung Thein Dan. He has been detained and jailed pending a trial. Myanmar was wracked by a military coup ...

He has acted as Burma's head of state since 1992, and was initially seen as more open than his predecessor, General Saw Maung. Some political prisoners were released, and human rights groups were ...

In response to the mass protests, the military, under General Saw Maung, seized power later that year, implementing martial law and ending democracy. Maung was replaced by General Than Shwe in the ...

YANGON/BANGKOK -- A full generation has grown up since the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) of Senior Gen. Saw Maung seized power on Sept. 18, 1988, putting a bloody end to a ...