Myanmar

Dec 28, 2009 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- Bangladesh and Myanmar [Burma] will hold a foreign secretary-level consultation in Dhaka on Tuesday [29 December]. A three-member Myanmar delegation, led by deputy foreign minister U Maung Myint, is ...  

UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly on Thursday strongly condemned human rights violations in Myanmar and urged the country’s military rulers to release more than 2,000 political prisoners including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The ...  

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's highest court agreed Monday to review the most recent extension of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Suu Kyi's lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court last month after a lower court upheld a decision to ...  

YANGON, Myanmar, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court will hear pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her latest house detention handed down in August, Myanmar news sources report.  

YANGON (AFP) -- Lawyers for Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi were set to argue an appeal against her extended house arrest sentence at the country's supreme court on Monday. The 64-year-old democracy icon was ordered to spend ...  

Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi seen during a metting at a hotel in Yangon. Faced with national polls next year and Suu Kyi still in detention, members of the party she heads, the National League for Democracy, need to resolve ...  

Myanmar's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal against the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced in August to a further 18 months in detention for breaking a security law. No date was set to hear the appeal ...  

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Bangkok — Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces an urgent challenge to shake up her party’s ranks, analysts say, after a rare meeting with her colleagues exposed a weak and ...  

On 2 - 3 May 2008 a massive cyclone (Nargis) hit Myanmar (Burma) affecting the lives of approximately 24 million people in 115 townships, according to United Nations (UN) estimates and collective assessments by the international communities. Winds of ...  

YANGON: Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was briefly allowed out of her home on Wednesday by the military government to meet senior members of her party and one said they had agreed to changes in the party leadership. Suu Kyi had ...  

HONG KONG — The military junta in Myanmar allowed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with senior members of her party Wednesday, the latest in a recent series of signals that suggest the junta might be responding to diplomatic overtures ...  

Myanmar's junta Wednesday allowed detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with elderly members of her party in a rare concession by the military regime, an official said. The democracy icon was taken to a state guesthouse in Yangon for ...  

Beijing/Yangon: Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrives this week in Myanmar where he is press for assurances there will be no more unrest on their shared border.The military-ruled former Burma has few foreign friends due to its human rights record and detention of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of an election next [...]  

and more doctors and medical support, possibly from existing OB medical teams in China, India, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia,' says Bill Horan, president of OBI. 'OBI partners DHL, Water Missions and Mission Aviation Fellowship are standing ready