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Suu Kyi to address UN body in Geneva next month
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver her first speech outside the country since at least 1988 before a U.N. labor conference in ...
Myanmar power cuts draw protest in main city
A small group of demonstrators carried candles and tied up traffic in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday evening as discontent grows over chronic power ...
US, Suu Kyi agree Myanmar reforms fragile
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have discussed the recent easing of U.S. sanctions and the ...
Myanmar: New deal to end fighting with Shan rebels
A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in the country's east, the latest ...
Suu Kyi photo exhibit opens in hometown Yangon
A photography exhibit about Aung San Suu Kyi's successful campaign for Parliament is showing just how far Myanmar has come since ending a half century ...
Myanmar president feeling ill, resting at home
Myanmar's President Thein Sein was resting at his home in Yangon on Friday after military doctors paid a house call but an adviser said his condition ...
US eases economic sanctions to reward Myanmar
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in U.S. relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming the first U.S.
Suu Kyi backs proposal to suspend US sanctions
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is cautiously backing a U.S. senator's proposal to suspend U.S. economic sanctions. Suu Kyi said Tuesday ...
SKorea: Myanmar halting arms purchases from NKorea
Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart ...
Sen. McCain: US slow to seek trade pacts in Asia
Republican Sen. John McCain called for the Obama administration to ramp up its free trade agenda in Asia and suspend U.S. economic sanctions on ...
Lee makes 1st SKorean trip to Myanmar since attack
Myanmar tightened security for a visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by ...
Myanmar reforms leave political prisoners behind
In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years — alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi given first passport in 24 years
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi received her first passport in 24 years on Tuesday ahead of a planned trip to Norway and Britain. An aide ...
Biodiversity could be casualty of Myanmar openness
As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the ...
Myanmar paper: 31 dead in new clashes with Kachin
A state-run newspaper in Myanmar on Friday said recent battles between government troops and Kachin ethnic rebels had killed 31 people, as the ongoing ...
Ex-junta prisoner, Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi capped a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to office holder in long-repressed Myanmar as the country's main ...
Myanmar begins new era as Suu Kyi joins parliament
Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a lawmaker Wednesday, capping a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to parliamentarian that will ...
US hopeful Myanmar opposition can work with gov't
The United States says the decision of Myanmar's opposition party to take up its parliamentary seats despite a dispute over the oath of office is a ...
Myanmar comedy shows struggle for national image
When Burmese filmmaker Htun Zaw Win decided to make a short comedy about the tragically bizarre process of getting movies made in his oppressed ...
UN chief hails flexibility of Myanmar's Suu Kyi
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, winding up a trip to encourage reforms in Myanmar, praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday for ...
Suu Kyi, her party to attend parliament Wednesday
Aung San Suu Kyi said she and other lawmakers in her opposition party will attend Myanmar's parliament on Wednesday for the first time and will take ...
Suu Kyi hopes Myanmar oath dispute is settled soon
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday she was hopeful a dispute over Myanmar's legislative oath would be overcome soon, calling it a ...
Myanmar exiles urge US to seek more reforms
The European Union's suspension of economic sanctions against Myanmar has riled exiled activists, who are urging the United States to press for ...
Sanctions lifting could revive Myanmar industry
Looking across a sea of young workers perched behind rows of buzzing sewing machines, factory owner Myint Soe has one main hope for Monday's ...