By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries
BURMA (ANS) -- A team from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) returned this week from a three-week fact-finding visit to Rangoon and Kachin State on the China-Burma border, where the CSW team recorded evidence of grave human rights violations.
Kachin people fleeing the violence
CSW told the ASSIST News Service that its team interviewed internally displaced people (IDPs) from Kachin State and northern Shan State, and heard first-hand...Read Full Story
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - A top EU official held out the prospect of a further easing of sanctions on Myanmar after a meeting on Monday with the country's president and announced increased aid to acknowledge reforms already begun by a new civilian administration. European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs is the most senior European Union official to meet President Thein Sein since a civilian administration took office in the former Burma last March after almost 50 years of...Read Full Story
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Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), Saturday started the parliamentary by-election campaign in her constituency.
Suu Kyi is to contest in Kawhmu township in Yangon region as a candidate of her party with Dr. U Soe Min, candidate of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), for a seat of the House of Representatives in the April 1 by-elections...Read Full Story
IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is presented a guard of honour as he arrives at the Presidency in Islamabad on February 10, 2012. PHOTO: INP]
ISLAMABAD:? Pakistan and Sri Lanka have agreed to jack up their bilateral trade to $2 billion in the next three years, as President Asif Ali Zardari met his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday.
Currently, bilateral trade is valued at $375 million, and includes import of rubber and tea from Sri Lanka and export of cotton...Read Full Story
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The human rights situation was improving in Myanmar but serious challenges still remained and needed to be addressed, UN special envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana has said.
Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, told a press briefing at the Yangon international airport Sunday before wrapping his six-day visit that he was encouraged by the country's concrete progress in improving its human rights...Read Full Story
Myanmar president U Thein Sein met with visiting United Nations special envoy to Myanmar Vijay Nambiar in Nay Pyi Taw Tuesday, state radio and television reported. Nambiar, the special adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon and Under-Secretary ...
MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario recently met Myanmar opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her residence in Yangon where they held a brief exchange of views on political and socio-economic reforms in the country ...
KAWHMU, Myanmar -- Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.
Supporters waving her political party's flag came out in force to catch a glimpse of the 66-year-old Nobel Peace laureate as her convoy crawled from the main city Yangon to Kawhmu, a poor, rural...
The campaign for April elections is in full swing for leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi. The military-backed government has assured visiting EU officials that the upcoming by-election will be democratic.
KAWHMU, Myanmar, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, released from house arrest soon after 2010 parliamentary elections, got a warm welcome on her first campaign stop.
Suu Kyi was greeted by crowds of cheering supporters in...
WARTHINKHA, Myanmar (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to give a rapturous welcome on Saturday to Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail for the first time in her bid to win a seat in the country's parliament.
KAWHMU, Myanmar - Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.
Supporters waving her political party's flag
Thousands of people lined the roads in Kawhmu township to greet Aung San Suu Kyi on an appearance at the weekend where she is due to contest a by-election for a parliamentary seat on April 1. She made two campaign speeches. Karen dancers performed ethnic ...
MANILA, Philippines—Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario has joined the growing list of supporters of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. During a Feb. 9 meeting with Suu Kyi at her Rangoon residence, Del Rosario “expressed his sincere ...
The UN's special envoy to Burma, Toms Ojea Quintana, visited Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison on Friday morning and met with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the afternoon. Aye ...
Myanmar's military government has pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. Follow news about Aung San Suu Kyi and share opinions about how Myanmar is handling this debate.
Philadelphia Daily News - Indonesian protesters display posters of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest demanding her release outside Mya
Aung San Suu Kyi ; born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience
Boston Online - YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta has extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by another year, a government source said on Friday. "Home Minis