Begum Khaleda Zia – democracy icon and uncompromising leader of the country – was laid to eternal rest with state honours in ...

Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed began her political career as a pro-democracy icon, but in recent years that has taken a dramatic turn. Since August last year, Hasina ...

Sheikh Hasina was once a pro-democracy icon, known for fighting Islamic militancy and lifting millions out of poverty - INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - In 2014, then presidential hopeful and outsider Joko Widodo attended packed campaigns with a white ribbon warning against election fraud tied around his head. At the time Jokowi - ...

Ivan Jančárek, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Korea, right, and Jun Sung-soo, the Mayor of Seocho District in Seoul, sit and chat on the new Václav Havel’s memorial bench honoring the Czech ...

Olaojo Temitope Vincent, a Canada-based lawyer and CEO of WhiteRock Energy Resources, has celebrated Senate Majority Leader Senator Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele on the occasion of his 62nd birthday.

YANGON (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi, who went from life in the English countryside to become one of the world's most famous political prisoners, is an icon of Myanmar's democracy struggle. Yet despite ...