Myanmar President Htin Kyaw signed a pardon for 83 prisoners on the country's New Year's Day, his office said in a statement on Sunday (April 17).
Sixty-one more political prisoners including activists and students facing trial connected with politics were released as of Saturday night after their cases were withdrawn, official sources said.
Newly-appointed Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that she will work for the release of political prisoners on the occasion of the upcoming Myanmar new year through legal channels.
The United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Thursday said the second phase of Syrian peace talks seeking to broker a political end to the five-year conflict is scheduled to start on April 13.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reiterated on Tuesday his Left-led government's pledge to break the "vicious triangle of corruption" between part of banks, media barons and the political elite during a heated debate in parliament on justice affairs.
As the latest round of talks seeking to broker a political end to the Syrian crisis concludes, UN mediator Staffan de Mistura hoped that a paper outlining 12 points of commonality between warring factions would form the basis for substantive negotiations in April.
Multiple economic and political challenges are awaiting the Egyptian new government that has just undergone a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday including 10 new ministers a few days ahead of submitting the cabinet's new program to the newly elected parliament for approval.
As the second week of UN-mediated Syrian talks prepares to get underway, warring factions are still at loggerheads over a number of issues though relative progress has been made since proximity discussions started on Monday.
The United States on Wednesday accused the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of holding an American student for political reasons and called for his immediate release.
The newly formed Afghan government is facing severe tests in 2016, and it must manage its difficult transition by overcoming political, economic and security challenges, the top UN official in the Asian country said here Tuesday.
Mesmerized by China's dazzling growth in past decades, the world has found it difficult to analyze the phenomenon through existing archetypes of modern economics.
Chinese top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng underscored the Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership on Monday as the country "enters the home stretch" for its 2020 goal.
President Xi Jinping's insights on China's political and economic development, dubbed "Xi political economics," have reverberated through the Great Hall of the People throughout the yearly key political events.
Singapore's political system must be refreshed from time to time as circumstances change, President Tony Tan Keng Yam said on Jan 15 as he announced that the Government will study it for possible reforms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the country's political and legal affairs departments to deepen ongoing judicial reforms to give a boost to the country's judicial credibility and people's sense of security.
The five-day first Myanmar Union Peace Conference ended on Saturday in Nay Pyi Taw, setting the unfinished discussions to be carried in a future similar conference in the next term of the government which will take office at the end of March.
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