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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suu Kyi's near-sweep raises Myanmar democracy hope
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in parliamentary elections is the biggest prize of her political career. But the weekend vote for only a few ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote
She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose ...
Suu Kyi committed to win, says Myanmar vote unfair
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday that Myanmar's landmark weekend elections will be neither free nor fair because of widespread ...
Myanmar shines spotlight on historic election
Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world. The by-election ...
Ailing Suu Kyi curbs election campaign in Myanmar
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill while campaigning for Myanmar's upcoming by-elections and has suspended her extensive tour of the ...
American WWII veterans retain ties in Myanmar
They're in their 80s and 90s, and it all happened a very long time ago and far away, but American World War II veterans are still repaying "debts" to ...
Myanmar struggling to handle new surge in visitors
Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travelers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of ...
APNewsBreak: Myanmar invites US election monitors
Myanmar has invited the U.S. and European Union to send observers to monitor April elections, an American official said Wednesday, a first for the ...
Suu Kyi's unthinkable leap from icon to parliament
On Yangon's teeming streets, 2012 is the year of Aung San Suu Kyi. Her once-banished image now appears everywhere, on T-shirts, keychains and coffee ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi woos army during campaign stop
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi assured Myanmar's military on Tuesday that she seeks no confrontation with it as she ended a two-day campaign trip ...
Myanmar relaxes grip on media, vows end to censors
It was a newspaper article that just months ago, Myanmar's draconian state censors never would have approved. It told how prison authorities crudely ...
Festival banned 20 years returns to Myanmar pagoda
Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar's grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday ...
Myanmar lifts campaign restrictions on complaints
Myanmar election authorities lifted restrictions on political campaigning Monday in an unusually swift response to complaints by pro-democracy leader ...
Myanmar state media: dissident monk to be charged
A dissident monk who helped lead Myanmar's 2007 anti-government uprising is facing fresh legal action, in part for breaking into monasteries sealed ...
Prominent Myanmar monk taken in for questioning
A prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar last month was detained Friday after a pre-dawn visit by ...
Myanmar panel says Suu Kyi can run for Parliament
An elections panel Monday affirmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's candidacy for Myanmar's Parliament in another step toward political openness ...