Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When U Win Htein arrives at Sharky’s restaurant in Yangon, Myammar’s biggest city, he is stooped over a walking stick ...

HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- In the 6-1/2 years Htein Lin spent in Myanmar prisons between 1998 and 2004, he produced an estimated 250 paintings. He credits prison guards with helping to save most of his ...

5 September: Myanmar artist Htein Lin and his wife, the former British ambassador Vicky Bowman, were each sentenced to one year in prison on 2 September after a secret trial, reports Myanmar Now. The ...

YANGON, Myanmar – YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A former aide to Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from prison Thursday after 14 years behind bars in the military-led country ...

Myanmar artist Ko Htein Lin was arrested Wednesday evening alongside his wife, the former British ambassador Vicky Bowman. According to two anonymous sources who spoke with the New York Times, the ...

Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing — he had no mirror in his cell — and the line is uncertain: in lieu ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar found a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of treason and sentenced him Friday to 20 years in prison, a member of their political party said.

With his artistic practice influenced by his time as a political prisoner for seven years, Htein Lin‘s works never fail to impact his viewers with perspectives and insights. He works in a variety of ...

In Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora, Emily L. Hue focuses on the moment when Myanmar artists leave a relatively enclosed domestic art community. Bangkok Art ...

HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- In the 6-1/2 years Htein Lin spent in Myanmar prisons between 1998 and 2004, he produced an estimated 250 paintings. He credits prison guards with helping to save most of his ...