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An unidentified legal official from Kamayut district court speaks outside the residence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the home is auctioned in Yangon, MyanmarThursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

With asking price of $142 million, no bidders for home of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi

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FILE - Gen. Aung San, then leader of the Myanmar government, arrives at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of Britain's Prime Minister, in London, on Jan. 13, 1947. Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday July 19, 2024 to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo, File)

Strife-torn Myanmar marks 77th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San

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In this photo provided by Thabeikkyin Township People’s Defense Force, the group's members celebrate the 79th birthday of the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with a cake in a hut of the group’s outpost in Thabeikkyin township in Mandalay region, Myanmar, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Thabeikkyin Township People’s Defense Force via AP)

Supporters of Myanmar’s jailed leader Suu Kyi mark her 79th birthday with a flower-themed protest

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during a meeting on the implementation of Myanmar Education Development in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Jan. 28, 2020. Myanmar’s military says Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar’s ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk through the garden after meetings at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar on Dec. 2, 2011. No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction Wednesday, March 20, 2024 of the family home of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years, legal officials said. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

No bidders in court-ordered auction of house where Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi was detained for years

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - Myanmar's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Jan. 28, 2020. Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, declined to hear special appeals from the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions in six corruption cases where she was found guilty of abusing her authority and accepting bribes, a legal official said. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar’s top court declines to hear Suu Kyi’s special appeals in abuse of power and bribery cases

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - Then Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi watches the vaccination of health workers at a hospital in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Jan. 27, 2021. Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is suffering from symptoms of low blood pressure including dizziness and loss of appetite, but has been denied treatment at qualified facilities outside the prison system, a medical worker said Thursday Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ailing but is denied care outside prison

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - A supporter shows a portrait of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest marking the two-year anniversary of the military takeover that ousted her government outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 1, 2023. Myanmar’s Supreme Court has declined to hear special appeals from the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions in five cases of which the head of the military-installed government already pardoned her earlier this month. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Myanmar’s High Court declines to hear Suu Kyi’s appeals in 5 cases where sentences already commuted

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar's then-leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Jan. 28, 2020. Myanmar’s military-led government has reduced the prison sentences of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a clemency connected to a religious ceremony, state media said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Aung San Suu Kyi has some of her prison sentences reduced by Myanmar’s military-led government

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In this photo from The Military True News Information Team, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center left, chairman of State Administration Council, speaks with members the National Defense and Security Council including Myint Swe, center, Pro Temporary President of the military government, and Vice President Henry Van Thio, center right, Monday, July 31, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar’s military-controlled government has extended the state of emergency it imposed when the army seized power from an elected government 2 1/2 years ago, forcing a further delay in elections it promised when it took over. (The Military True News Information Team via AP)

Myanmar’s military-led government extends state of emergency, forcing delay in promised election

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Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, right, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have a chat during the state welcome ceremony at National Palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Fazry Ismail, Pool)

ASEAN states should engage bilaterally with Myanmar to resolve crisis, Malaysian leader says

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FILE - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, attends the bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the president house in Naypyitaw Myanmar, on Jan. 18, 2020. Myanmar’s military-controlled government plans to transfer the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a prison in the capital Naypyitaw to home confinement as part of an act of clemency to be granted prisoners in connection with a religious ceremony on Aug. 1, a security official said Tuesday July 25, 2023. (Nyein Chan Naing/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Myanmar’s military plans to move Suu Kyi to house arrest, according to unofficial reports

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai walks after the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in Southeast Asia by The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Thailand's top diplomat said Wednesday that he met ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in detention over the weekend and she conveyed her openness to engage in talks to resolve the crisis in her strife-torn nation. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Thai diplomat meets with Suu Kyi in detention in Myanmar and says she wants to join talks on crisis

By Jim Gomez and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during cerebrations for the 96th birthday anniversary of her late father, General Aung San, and Myanmar Children Day at her National League for Democracy party's headquarters on Feb. 13, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar. Legal officials in Myanmar says its Supreme Court has scheduled hearings for this month to consider appeals from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi concerning her convictions in cases brought mostly by the military government that saw her receive a total of 33 years in prison. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar’s Supreme Court to hear appeals of ousted leader Suu Kyi in cases brought by the army

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Protesters walk through a market with posters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 8, 2021. A Myanmar court convicted Suu Kyi in more corruption cases Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, adding six years to prison sentence. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar court convicts Suu Kyi on more corruption charges

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Aung San Suu Kyi, left, Myanmar's foreign minister and de facto leader, walks with Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, right, commander-in-chief in the airport of capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar on May 6, 2016. A court in Myanmar sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, after finding her guilty of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar court sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 4 years

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Ousted Myanmar leader on trial; critics say charges bogus

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi makes first in-person court appearance

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Anti-coup protesters run after seeing police and soldiers arrive to disperse their demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Demonstrations have continued in many parts of the country since Saturday's meeting of leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as have arrests and beatings by security forces despite an apparent agreement by junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to end the violence. (AP Photo)

UN calls for return to democracy in Myanmar, end to violence

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Police security forces stand by inside a police vehicle and on the sidewalk of Hledan Road in Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, April 16, 2021. Opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta went on the political offensive Friday, declaring they have formed an interim National Unity Government comprising elements of the ousted government of Aung San Suu Kyi as well as prominent members of major ethnic minority groups.(AP Photo)

Myanmar coup foes tout minority-backed shadow government

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