Sean Turnell is a Senior Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, covering developments in Myanmar, the wider region, and international economic issues. He has been a Senior ...

From sharing a concrete cell with rats and “horrible black tarantulas” to being chained to a steel chair in a windowless box, Sean Turnell said his more than 20 months as a prisoner in Myanmar ...

If Sean Turnell was an unlikely prisoner, his memoir of 650 days held captive in squalor by the brutes who have inflicted carnage on Myanmar is even more surprising. It’s funny. An Unlikely ...

Australian academic Sean Turnell has returned home to Australia, after being freed from a Myanmar prison where he spent 650 days behind bars. His release, along with thousands of other prisoners ...

BANGKOK--A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi in another criminal case Thursday and sentenced Australian economist Sean Turnell to three years in prison for ...

BANGKOK--A court in Myanmar ruled Thursday that it will not allow a Burmese-English translator at the upcoming trial of Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who has been charged under the ...

Sean Turnell, an economics professor and world expert on the Myanmar economy, says releasing up to $US1 billion in Myanmar reserves, or the interest generated by ...

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 2 (AP): Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar, received a hero’s welcome Thursday at Australia’s Parliament House ...

"The difference to the past," says economist Sean Turnell, "is that this junta does not seem to even pretend anymore that it has any sort of vision for Myanmar." The release of Australian ...