Myanmar's detained Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official

BANGKOK: Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday (Aug 3), a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government said, amid concerns over the health of the 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been in detention since February 2021 when an elected civilian government led by her was ousted by Myanmar's military in a dawn coup, plunging the impoverished Southeast Asian nation into turmoil.

Since then, her exact whereabouts and health conditions have been difficult to determine, with no foreign leader or envoy having publicly met her despite requests for contact from countries in the region that have excluded Myanmar's leadership from their summits.