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Milestone in an epic journey as Aung San Suu Kyi leaves Burma at lastThe IndependentAlmost quarter of century since she last left Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Bangkok last night as part of a busy schedule of international travel that would have been unimaginable two years ago. The Nobel laureate flew into Thailand for a four-day ...and more »  

Rock star Bono will join fellow aid campaigner Sir Bob Geldof in a special tribute event to honour Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Related StoriesIreland growing warmer and wetterRight-to-know reform delay slammedMasked protesters stage treaty demoIreland set to vote on EU treatyHoneymooner's battle with attackers  

Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has told an ecstatic crowd of Burma migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them, on the first stop of her first trip abroad in 24 ...  

Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to cheers in Bangkok -- her first trip outside of Myanmar in 24 years. Deborah Gembara reports. BURMA'S democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Thailand for her first trip abroad in more than two ...  

Thailand visit marks another milestone in Burmese reform, with pro-democracy leader no longer fearing permanent exileAung San Suu Kyi has embarked on her first trip abroad in nearly 25 years, visiting Burmese people who have fled to neighbouring Thailand during military rule of their own country.Her arrival in Bangkok on Tuesday offered proof of how confident the Nobel peace laureate is in the nation's new reformist leaders. She spent 15 of...  

Nobel Peace Prize winner and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is set to visit Ireland this June to receive Amnesty’s [...]  

KICKING off her first trip abroad in nearly a quarter-century, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi offered encouragement to impoverished migrants whose flight to neighbouring Thailand is emblematic of the devastation wrought on her homeland by ...  

She is expected to visit Dublin solely to be guest of honor at the concert, called Electric Burma. Others taking part are Bob Geldof, Vanessa Redgrave and singer-songwriter Damien Rice.  

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first international trip in nearly a quarter-century, starting with Thailand on Tuesday.  

New Book sings the praises of Burma - “a country worthy of everyone’s attention … and help” - as the next big travel destination. Source: Rethink Press Burma is very much in the news, Aung San Suu Kyi is currently free, elections have just been ...  

RANGOON, Burma (AP) – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is taking her first trip abroad in more than two decades, catching a 85-minute flight to neighboring Thailand on Tuesday night. For 24 years, Suu Kyi was either under house ...  

Aung San Suu Kyi, center, receives flowers from supporters as she arrives at Yangon International Airport before her departure for Bangkok on May 29, 2012, in Yangon, ...  

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suy Kyi arrived in Bangkok today, making her first trip outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years.  

Bono is set to present the Amnesty International 'Ambassador of Conscience Award' to the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, at a special concert in Dublin on June 18. Irish and international artists from the worlds of ...  

The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and ...  

"India is the world's largest democracy. So then why doesn't it support Aung San Suu Kyi?" The indignant words were delivered by a Burmese taxi driver but could well have represented the feelings of many in Rangoon. He would have got his answer ...  

BANGKOK - Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is leaving the country for the first time in 24 years. She is scheduled to arrive in Bangkok Tuesday evening and is expected to visit migrant workers and refugees from Burma and speak at an international economic forum. First trip in 24 years Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip to Thailand marks the first time she has been outside Burma since 1988. Fifteen of the years since were spent under...  

(BANGKOK) — For 24 years, Aung San Suu Kyi was either under house arrest or too fearful that if she left Burma, the government would never let her return. Now, in a sign of how much life there has changed, she's back to being a world traveler. Bangkok's ...  

Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to help Burmese migrant workers, as she addressed cheering crowds in Thailand on her first trip outside Burma since 1988.  

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi received a rapturous reception in Thailand today from crowds of cheering compatriots who flocked to celebrate her first trip outside Burma in nearly a quarter of a century.  

TIMENobel Peace Prize Winner Suu Kyi Travels To ThailandNPRby Michael Sullivan Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has left Myanmar for the first time in more than two decades. Her first trip out of the country formerly known as Burma is on a short hop to Thailand to meet with refugees and attend the World ...Aung San Suu Kyi's 'test run' outside of MyanmarChristian Science MonitorSuu Kyi gets hero's welcome in ThailandChicago TribuneSuu Kyi...  

After being held under house arrest in Myanmar for15 years political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi is making the most of her freedom as she embarks on a world tour.  

Burma's long-time democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is using her first international trip in 24 years to encourage impoverished Burmese migrant workers in Thailand. The opposition leader Wednesday addressed a crowd of thousands who packed a ...  

DUBLIN — Organizers of an Irish tribute concert for Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi say Bono will present her with Amnesty International’s highest honor when she’s in Dublin next month as part of her first international tour in 24 years.  

Burma's long-time democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is using her first international trip in 24 years to visit impoverished Burmese migrants in Thailand. The opposition leader's schedule Wednesday includes a symbolic visit to Burmese workers ...  

Bono will join fellow aid campaigner Bob Geldof in a special tribute event to honour Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Dublin this month.  

msnbc.comSuu Kyi visits migrant workers in ThailandABC OnlineBy South-East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel Thousands of Burmese migrant workers have welcomed Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Bangkok. It is her her first visit outside of Burma in 24 years. Cheering workers lined the streets of Mahachai ...Crowds gather for Aung San Suu KyiHerald SunSuu Kyi Takes First Trip in 24 YearsWall Street JournalOn Thailand trip, Suu Kyi...  

Burma's long-time democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Thailand's capital, marking her first international trip in 24 years and ending an era of isolation in her home country.  

Aung San Suu Kyi is visiting Burmese migrants in Thailand on her first trip outside her native Burma in more than two decades. Cheering crowds greeted the democracy leader south of Bangkok, waving ...  

BURMA'S reformist President, Thein Sein, has cancelled a trip to neighbouring Thailand this week, apparently not wanting to be upstaged by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on her first overseas trip in 24 years. There is a buzz of excitement in ...  

PORTLAND, Maine — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is traveling in Southeast Asia where she’s meeting with government leaders and officials in Thailand and Myanmar. Collins arrived in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, on Tuesday. She’s ...  

ALMOST a quarter of a century since she last left Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured) arrived in Bangkok last night as part of a busy schedule of international travel that would have been unimaginable two years ago.  

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had arrived home shortly before from a trip to Australia. But the throngs of excited onlookers were not there to greet Thailand’s first female P.M., who was on her way back from meeting Australia ...  

Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday to meet with the Thai prime minister and attend the World Economic Forum on her first trip abroad since 1988. Suu Kyi has spent 15 of the past 22 years under house arrest.  

Burma's long-time democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi left Burma late Tuesday for Bangkok, Thailand, marking the first time in 24 years that she has left her home country. The Burmese opposition leader is to spend several days ...  

Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday ended 24 years of restriction on overseas travel, as she made the short journey from Burma to Thailand and began to build her presence on the global stage.  

Nobel laureate and longtime political activist Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Bangkok for her first trip outside Burma in 24 years after decades of house arrest and oppression under the country's military rule. In a sign of the dramatic political change ...  

Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has left the country for the first time in 24 years.Related Stories'Five dead' in Italy earthquakeFBI agents join Kenya blast probeUN: Syria victims were executed'Nine dead' in Italy earthquakeMonti wants Italian football halted  

Burma's long-time democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Thailand's capital, marking her first international trip in 24 years and ending an era of isolation in her home country. The plane carrying the Nobel laureate ...  

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Tuesday with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he wraps up his three-day visit to strengthen trade and investment links between the two Asian neighbors. Prime Minister Singh met with Burmese ...  

Telegraph.co.ukPM Manmohan Singh's wife has her own meeting with Suu KyiTimes of IndiaYANGON: One of the highlights of PM Manmohan Singh's meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi actually came after the interaction when Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur had a pull-aside with the iconic leader. Kaur, apparently a huge admirer of Suu Kyi, had expressed ...Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 yearsBBC NewsAung San Suu Kyi arrives in BangkokABC OnlinePM invites Suu Kyi...  

REUTERSpro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Yangon International Airport as she departs to Bangkok. BANGKOK -- Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Thailand late Tuesday on her first overseas trip from Burma in more than two decades. Suu Kyi, who last left the former army-ruled nation...  

Burma democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Bangkok late on Tuesday for her first visit abroad in 24 years, 15 of which the Nobel peace laureate spent under house arrest. Suu Kyi, 66, arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a five-day visit to ...  

The Burmese opposition leader will also address the World Economic Forum on East Asia later this ... India is open to reaffirming ties with Burma's opposition movement. New Delhi has long been criticized for its ties with Burma's oppressive ...  

Daily BhaskarPM Manmohan Singh to meet Aung San Suu Kyi todayDaily BhaskarNay Pyi Taw: In what is billed as one of the high-points of his landmark visit to Myanmar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday amid expectations of India conveying its support for further progress in ...India PM Manmohan Singh in historic Burma visitBBC NewsManmohan Singh visits Myanmar amid energy questTimes of...  

The HinduSuu Kyi Takes First Trip Outside Myanmar in 24 YearsWall Street JournalBy JAMES HOOKWAY BANGKOK—Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi set off for Bangkok late Tuesday, her first overseas visit in 24 years and a fresh indication of how much Myanmar has changed after over a year of political reforms in what was once ...India extends olive branch to Myanmar's Suu KyiAFPSuu Kyi, in Burma since 1988, starts world tourUSA...  

Burma's antithesis personality Aung San Suu Kyi is to attend a World Economic Forum in Bangkok subsequent week, withdrawal Burma for a initial time in twenty-four years. She will attend a limit that takes place from thirty May to 1 June, ...  

BANGKOK - 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 Democracy said she will attend the World Economic Forum in Bangkok ahead of a tour of Europe. Thailand hosts a large community of Burmese activists and exiles and they are quite excited about her trip. NLD spokesman Nyan Win on Friday said Aung San Suu Kyi will arrive in Bangkok mid-week. He...  

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to attend the World Economic Forum in Bangkok next week, leaving Burma for the first time in 24 years. She will attend the summit which takes place from 30 May to 1 June, a spokesman for her National ...  

BURMA'S democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is heading to Thailand for her first trip abroad in more than two decades, ending an era of isolation and cementing her arrival on the global stage. The former political prisoner, who won a seat in parliament in ...  

for many years Aung San Suu Kyi was the world's most famous political prisoner, spending almost two decades under house arrest in a lake side villa in Rangoon. To get anywhere near 'the Lady's' house you first had to get into Burma, foreign ...  

Burmese President Thein Sein will also attend the event, according to a government official who did not want to be named. Pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi was released from seven straight years of house arrest in November 2010 and has now been issued with a ...  

NAYPYITAW, Burma/Myanmar (AP) — India agreed Monday to provide Burma/Myanmar with a $500 million credit as one of 12 deals signed during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the Southeast Asian country. Singh is on a three-day visit that ...  

BANGKOK: The reformist President of Burma, Thein Sein, has cancelled a trip to Bangkok this week, apparently not wanting to be upstaged by the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on her first overseas trip in 24 years. There is a buzz of excitement in ...  

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside the country next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Thailand. A spokesperson for the Nobel laureate's National League for Democracy said Thursday that Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver a speech in Bangkok at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, being held from May 30 to June 1. The long-time democracy activist spent most of the past...  

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suy Kyi was jostled and pushed by excited well-wishers outside the Thai capital today. Security officials were overwhelmed by a surging crowd of mostly Burmese migrant workers on her first day in a foreign country in ...  

Hong Kong people are usually concerned only about articles on freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi when reading news about Burma.But this is changing with the West lifting its economic boycott on the ...  

(Commentary) - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of the National League for Democracy have taken their seats in the Southeast Asian nation's parliament, a month after ...  

Suu Kyi spent the majority of the past two decades under house arrest during the rule of Burma’s former military junta and while free had refused to travel abroad for fear that she would be refused reentry to her homeland by the generals who considered ...  

Nobel laureate and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party Aung San Suu Kyi will take a trip outside Burma for the first time in twenty-four years next week to attend ...  

Debilitating power cuts in Burma have pushed hundreds of protesters on to the streets in the biggest demonstrations since the Saffron revolution five years ago. Several members of Aung San Suu Kyi's ...  

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have discussed the recent easing of U.S. sanctions and the need to protect against Burma’s backsliding on reforms, the State Department said Monday.  

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, centre, opens a photo exhibition at the Institut Francaise in Rangoon May 17. She will make her first speech outside the country in Geneva on June ...  

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address an International Labour Organization conference in Geneva next month, on her first trip outside Burma, in 24 years. The ILO says Ms Suu Kyi will address the final day of the conference, which is expected to discuss the issue of forced labour in Burma. Aid groups [...]  

The Nobel laureate's first trip outside Burma since 1988 comes as dramatic changes sweep the country, after decades of outright military rule ended last year. Ms Suu Kyi, fearful that she would never be allowed to return, had refused to travel abroad in ...  

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to attend the World Economic Forum in Bangkok next week, leaving Burma for the first time in 24 years. She will attend the summit which takes ...  

The government didn't have enough soldiers to suppress both. The solution: ask the Burmese military to deny the Nagas safe haven in return for India turning its back on Suu Kyi. It worked like a dream. Kashmir was saved. The Nagas were so battered by joint ...  

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Burma in an effort to strengthen trade and investment links between the two Asian neighbors. Mr. Singh met with Burmese President Thein Sein in the administrative capital, Naypyitaw, after a formal ...  

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have discussed the recent easing of U.S. sanctions and the need to protect against the country's backsliding on reforms, the State ...  

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will give a historic speech to both houses of Britain's parliament next month when she makes her first trip outside the country in 24 years. British Prime Minister David Cameron invited the Nobel Peace Prize winner to come to Britain when he visited her in Burma in April. Aung San Suu Kyi has been given the rare honor of addressing the joint houses of Britain's parliament, even though she is...  

The beginning of this month was a week of firsts for Burma’s famed pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. She won a seat in parliamentary by-elections and, unlike after her party’s overwhelming victory in 1990 that was ...  

Former Oxford University student who became Burmese pro-democracy leader to make first trip abroad in 24 yearsAung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, is to visit Britain next month in her first trip outside the south Asian state for 24 years. She will address both houses of parliament as a guest of the British government, as well as receiving an honorary degree at Oxford University, where she studied in...  

RANGOON -- Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will give a speech to both houses of Britain's parliament next month when she makes her first trip outside the country in 24 years. British Prime Minister David Cameron invited the Nobel Peace Prize ...  

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will give a historic speech to both houses of Britain's parliament next month when she makes her first trip outside the country in 24 ...  

G8 leaders on Saturday praised the "remarkable efforts" of President Thein Sein and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in delivering democratic reforms to Burma.The positive comments ...  

BURMA’S OPPOSITION leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit Ireland next month as part of her first trip abroad in 24 years. Ms Suu Kyi is due to travel to Norway and the UK in mid-June, but human rights campaigners here are finalising plans for a one-day ...  

Since taking office in March 2011, Burmese president Thein Sein has captivated international attention by releasing political prisoners, loosening press restrictions and luring world-famous democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi back into the political mainstream.  

An Indian Prime Minister may be visiting Burma for the first time in 25 years, but it is really Dr Manmohan Singh’s meeting with pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi which is generating much excitement and speculation. So where will the Prime Minister ...  

Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the relationship between the United States and Burma. Since I announced a new U.S. opening to Burma in November, President Thein Sein, Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma have made significant progress along the path to democracy.  The United States has pledged to respond to positive developments in Burma and to clearly demonstrate America's commitment to the future of an extraordinary...  

The 66-year-old opposition leader spent much of the last two decades locked up in her Rangoon home by Burma's former junta, but has now been issued with a passport and is able to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years. She had previously been ...  

U.S. sanctions on Burma helped set the stage for Aung San Suu Kyi's party's dramatic election win last month, but by abruptly lifting those sanctions now, Peter Popham writes, the State ...  

STATE DEPARTMENT - The United States is lifting all of its economic sanctions against the military-led government in Burma following the election to parliament of long-time pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi. Washington will be sending its first ambassador to Burma in more than 20 years.   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of bans on U.S. financial transactions, investments, and access to credit in a...  

BANGKOK -- Burma has promised visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-bak it will no longer buy weapons from North Korea. During his historic visit, Lee also met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and expressed confidence that Burma’s reform ...  

YANGON - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday as part of his two-day visit to the country. The visit is the first by a South Korean leader to Burma, also called Myanmar, since the 1983 bomb attack by ...  

QUESTION: Now that Aung San Suu Kyi says she is happy for tourists to visit Burma, I would love to take my mother there for a holiday as it’s something she has always wanted to do. We don’t normally go on package holidays, but we wouldn’t be ...  

Nobel laureate and chairperson of the National League for Democracy ... In addition, Suu Kyi will give a speech in Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1991, the Nobel Committee said on 21 May as stated by The Telegaph ...  

Speaker John Bercow told the Commons she would address peers and MPs in Westminster Hall at 3pm ... He added: "It is an incredible testament to change in that country (Burma) that she is now able to travel and speak freely, including in this parliament."  

Democratic reforms in Burma are not yet irreversible, the opposition leader says.Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi lamented on Tuesday that the international community was becoming ...  

OSLO -- Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on June 16, the Norwegian committee announced Monday. The 66-year-old also will make a belated acceptance speech, first given on her behalf by son Alexander Aris more than two decades ago...  

United Nations officials say Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver a speech to a labor conference in Geneva next month. International Labor Organization Director-General Juan Somavia said Tuesday that Aung San Suu Kyi will address the annual ILO conference on June 14. The long-time pro-democracy activist will be making her first trip outside Burma in 24 years, after spending much of the past two decades under house...  

STATE DEPARTMENT - Burma is open for new foreign investment following the suspension of European and U.S. sanctions against the military-led government. ​​ Burma is changing and so is its relationship with the West. Pro-democracy advocate Aung Sung Suu Kyi is now a member of parliament.  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is an honored guest.  And Western leaders say the political reforms warrant the gradual reopening of relations...  

Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Bangkok next week on her first trip overseas in more than two decades to attend the World Economic Forum. The veteran activist also plans to travel to Europe next month, where she will accept in person ...  

Burma's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to Bangkok on May 28 to deliver a speech at the World Economic Forum in the Thai capital from May 30 to June 1, her first overseas trip in over 20 years. Nyan Win, the main spokesperson for National ...  

GENEVA -- Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will give her first speech outside the country in more than two decades at a UN International Labor Organization conference in Geneva.  The speech June 14 will come a day before the 66-year-old ...  

As the government’s soldiers are violating various human rights on the Kachin frontline, many people start slamming the inconsistent peace policy of the Thein Sein regime. During Ban Ki Moon’s recent visit to Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw, the Secretary ...  

OSLO -- Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on June 16, the Norwegian committee announced Monday.  The 66-year-old also will make a belated acceptance speech, first given on her behalf by son ...  

Her European journey follows months of dramatic change in Burma, including a historic election in April that won her a seat in a parliament that replaces nearly five decades of oppressive military rule. On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State ...  

Naw Zipporah Sein, the Karen National Union’s general secretary welcomed a statement from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calling for more development in ethnic areas.Zipporah-and-Daw-SuuNoble peace prize Laurent, Aung San Suu Kyi, asked for foreign investors and international development aid providers to consider working not only in central Burma, but also in ethnic rural areas. [...]  

Twenty-one years after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi will make her acceptance speech in Oslo on June 16, as part of her first trip outside Burma in 24 years.Suu Kyi, 66, ...  

Filed under: Asia, Burma (Myanmar) For most of the past two decades, the only images and sounds of Myanmar that have reached the outside world is of its repressive military regime and the heroic resistance of the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. For years, travelers found themselves caught up in the debate over the ethics of traveling to Myanmar resulting in the country becoming more remote and inaccessible. Now, with extraordinary political...  

Mizzima ) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton telephoned Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to review developments in Burma and to discuss the recent U.S. decision regarding sanctions. Clinton ...  

Camp David, Maryland — G8 leaders on Saturday praised the “remarkable efforts” of President Thein Sein and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in delivering democratic reforms to Myanmar.The positive comments come just days after the United States eased sanctions on the South Asian state, formerly known as Burma, in an effort to encourage it [...]  

As the government’s soldiers are violating various human rights on the Kachin frontline, many people start slamming the inconsistent peace policy of the Thein Sein regime. During Ban Ki Moon’s recent visit to Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw, the Secretary ...  

As the government’s soldiers are violating various human rights in the Kachin frontline, many people start slamming the inconsistent peace policy of the Thein Sein regime. During Ban Ki Moon's recent visit to Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw, the Secretary ...  

The week-long visit to Britain will be part of a European tour that marks Ms Suu Kyi’s first trip outside Burma since 1988. Mr Cameron invited her to Britain when he visited Burma earlier this year as part of the country’s diplomatic rehabilitation.  

WASHINGTON—Impressed by recent developments in Burma, leaders of G-8 countries paid tribute to the efforts of President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition National League of Democracy, and called for enhanced aid to the country.  

Debilitating power cuts in Burma have pushed hundreds of protesters out on to the streets in the biggest public demonstrations since the Saffron Revolution five years ago. Several members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party have reportedly been detained.Related StoriesAfghans face terror threat after Nato exit, Obama admitsWorld's tallest tower 'Sky Tree' opens in TokyoGovernment should do more to prevent human rights abuses in Libya, says...  

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy secured a landslide victory in Burma's recent elections, and the opposition party will make its parliamentary debut in two weeks. Among the ...  

Aung San Suu Kyi is also expected to visit Ireland and Norway in week-long visit starting on 18 June that is likely to be a celebration of her personal courage and the shift away from repression in Burma. Western governments will want to hear from her ...  

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is visiting Burma, the first time a South Korean leader has visited the country since a bomb attack 29 years ago. The North Korean attack, during a visit by former President Chun Doo-hwan to Rangoon in 1983 ...  

Mizzima ) - Zaganar, a member of the Bogyoke Film Executive Committee, said this week a biopic film about Aung San, the founder of Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi's father, is being planned and ...  

Prime Minister David Cameron extended the invitation for her to come to the UK on a visit to Burma last month, but at the time Ms Suu Kyi, who had previously been unwilling to leave for fear the country's military rulers would not let her return ...  

More uncertainty surrounds the Obama administration's plans—announced after democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's election to parliament in April—to ease a ban on American investment in the country also known as Burma. The ban, introduced in ...  

The push factor could be increasing, according to Human Rights Watch Asia deputy director Phil Robertson, who says relations between the Rohingya and the majority Buddhist Rakhine in the western region are deteriorating, even as Burma continues a recent glasnost.