The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, according to the former general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three...
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10 Mar 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday urged her opposition party to “seize the opportunity” as it gears up for what is expected to be a major victory for the NLD in the 2015 polls, given that the vote is...
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Speaking at the first congress of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, Suu Kyi urged a revival of the "spirit of fraternity" which saw it build a huge base during junta rule.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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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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