Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma’s opposition said leader Aung San Suu Kyi next week will take her first trip outside the country since 1988. The National League for …Read Full Story

YANGON (Reuters) – A week of protests in Myanmar over chronic power outages gained momentum on Friday after opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gave them her blessing and the government's response added to popular outrage. The protesters who gathered in Yangon as night fell, holding candles and praying for electricity, are testing their newfound freedoms in a fledgling democracy led by many of the same former generals who violently crushed past expressions of dissent. … Continued here: Myanmar...Read Full Story

Sinhala-Buddhist temple opened to ‘celebrate’ genocide at Mu’l’livaaykkaalThe Sinhala-Buddhist stupa at Vadduvaakal at the entrance to the strip of Mu'l'livaaykkaal. While the Tamil public was not allowed to enter the region, the stupa was secretely built and inaugurated recently. [TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 00:33 GMT]Coinciding the third anniversary of Mu’l’livaaykkaal genocide, a secretly built Sinhala-Buddhist stupa was inaugurated at Vaddu-vaakal, the entrance to the Mu’l’livaaykkaal...Read Full Story

Sat, May 26 2012 14:21 IST | 0 Views | Add your comment SHARE: Myanmar, which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Sunday, was for decades isolated from the world but has begun opening up and embracing democracy. Sandwiched between India, China, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos, Myanmar is being wooed by both neighbours and developed countries. Visitors from both the West and East are "landing there like an avalanche", says India's former ambassador Rajiv Bhatia. For India, Myanmar...Read Full Story

New Delhi likely to invite Suu Kyi to visit India during PM’s visit Once accused of turning its back on people’s movement against military rule in Myanmar, India is now all set to offer the country’s MPs a lesson or two about democracy. Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s meeting with Myanmar’s Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon next week, India on Friday revealed that it would facilitate visits by delegations of Myanmarese MPs to New Delhi to learn about the way the...Read Full Story

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, her party said on Thursday. See original article: Suu Kyi to make first foreign trip since 1988Read Full Story

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has urged the government to take measures, inter alia, to strengthen good governance, restoring civil administration and to maintain law and order, the party's secretary general Hassan Ali said yesterday.The party, an ally of the ruling coalition, presented its proposals to the government last week on the implementation of recommendations made by the Commission Lessons Learned and Reconciliation (LLRC).Mr Ali told the Daily Mirror that his party took note of...Read Full Story

James Mackay is a documentary photographer based in South East Asia and the UK. He graduated from Central St Martins College of Art & Design in London and has worked extensively in Burma, often undercover, documenting humanitarian and political issues in the military controlled country. Working in close collaboration with underground networks both inside and outside Burma, he has been undertaking a number of long-term projects documenting the democracy movement, political dissidents, human...Read Full Story

CNewsworld Large crowds gathered outside the prison to greet Fonseka, who was imprisoned in 2010 just days after he lost to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election, Xinhua reported. "I am now a free man," Fonseka told his supporters, adding that he dedicates his life to all those who stood by him. His supporters lit fire-crackers as the former army chief walked out of prison. Presidential spokesman Bandula Jayasekera said on Sunday the document authorising Fonseka s release...Read Full Story

YANGON (Reuters) - Five days of street protests over chronic power shortages present Myanmar's reformist government with a headache and an opportunity. Police forcibly dispersed protesters in the central Myanmar town of Pyi on Thursday, a heavy-handed response reminiscent of the previous military junta that could fuel grievances among an impoverished and long-neglected people. But state television also announced emergency measures on Wednesday to boost electricity supplies, suggesting a...Read Full Story