Myanmar politics

12 Feb 2013

Htoi Awng and two other Kachin students in Hong Kong shared their experience at a fundraising concert for Kachin refugees last week, raising over HK$5,000 for the Relief Action Network charity.

Who said it?

12 Feb 2013

It is useless to criticise us for being slow … since it is our core value to be open to public opinion

Suu Kyi meets PM Singh on landmark India visit

14 Nov 2012

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for talks in New Delhi on Wednesday, after warning India not to get carried away by reforms across its border.

Aung San Suu Kyi has moral authority to take up case of Rohingya

7 Nov 2012

The reforms undertaken in the past year or so by Myanmar's quasi-civilian government seem nothing short of breathtaking. Economic, political and social freedoms have been introduced after half a...

Suu Kyi refuses to defend Muslims in ethnic conflict

5 Nov 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar.

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

A way out of Burma's ethnic clashes

Renewed bouts of ethnic cleansing targeting the minority community of Rohingya Muslims in Burma's western Rakhine state have highlighted the plight of stateless people and the downside of...

Exploited workers in 'Little Myanmar' bank on Suu Kyi

Walk the streets of Mahachai and you might be in Myanmar rather than Thailand. Shop stores have signs in the distinctive Myanmese script, while it is almost as common to hear Myanmese spoken as it...

Myanmar's President Thein Sein re-elected as ruling party head

Myanmar's reformist President Thein Sein was yesterday reappointed head of the ruling party at a key meeting aimed at reviving its flagging political fortunes against a resurgent opposition.

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Thein Sein could accept Suu Kyi as Myanmar's president

Myanmese leader Thein Sein said he would accept democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi as president if elected, but could not alone amend the rules that bar her from power.

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Myanmar work will continue, vows National Endowment for Democracy

One of the more discreet elements of Myanmar's transformation is the enduring role of the National Endowment for Democracy, the US taxpayer-funded body that for years has bankrolled and fostered...

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Thein Sein would ‘accept’ Suu Kyi as Myanmar president

Myanmar leader Thein Sein has said in an interview he would accept democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi as president if elected, but added he could not alone amend rules that bar her from power.