YANGON, Myanmar – A prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar last month was released late Friday after being taken away before dawn by the authorities.Read Full Story
Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- The Myanmar authorities have taken an activist monk away from a monastery in Yangon, a fellow monk said Friday, only weeks after he was released from years of imprisonment.Read Full Story
Yangon, Myanmar. As the country opens up to the outside world and Suu Kyi begins her campaign ahead of April 1 by-elections, her decision to stand for a seat in parliament is the latest sign of dramatic political changes taking place in the country.Read Full Story
Yangon, Myanmar – Ko Ko Gyi unrolls a copy of the Messenger, one of 30 privately owned news magazines in Myanmar (Burma), and points – with an expression of disbelief – to a prominent picture of himself on the front page.Read Full Story
YANGON (AP) - The United Nations (UN) has given Ms Aung San Suu Kyi a 10-year-old peace award delayed by her long house arrest. A UN official visiting Myanmar presented Ms Suu Kyi with its Mandanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance ...
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 ...
Crowds of thousands lined the streets cheering and tooting horns as Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail for the first time on Saturday in a bid to become a lawmaker in the ...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) smiles during a press conference at her residence February 10, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi is continuing a very public campaign ahead of April 1 ...
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...
Yangon, Myanmar -- An elections panel Monday affirmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s candidacy for Myanmar’s Parliament in another step toward political openness in a country ...
Yangion, Feb 11 (IANS) 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 [...]
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
YANGON - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed on Friday U.S. engagement with Myanmar saying she hoped it would set her long-isolated country on the road to democracy. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a final meeting with Suu Kyi as ...
Thousands of cheering people crammed the streets in a southern Myanmar district Saturday to catch a glimpse of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on the historic first official day of her campaign.
Supporters lined the streets of Kawhmu with the party flags of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) as the 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate's convoy of 40 cars and vans made its way south to Kawhmu.
It was the first time Suu Kyi...