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Aung San Suu Kyi launches landmark tropics report
Aung San Suu Kyi launches the State of the Tropics report in Rangoon, which reveals just how crucial the regions are to the world’s future.
Aung San Suu Kyi on the move to Mogok, Pyin Oo Lwin
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is still making the rounds to assess support for Constitutional reform, with plans for a third trip to Mogok in Sagaing Division.
Aung San Suu Kyi becomes UNAIDS ambassador
Burma’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been appointed an ambassador of the UN’s programme on HIV and AIDS and has been tasked with fighting discrimination against people living with the disease, the agency said on Tuesday.
Is it foolish to criticise Aung San Suu Kyi?
Following Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent trip across the US to collect further accolades, the icon continues to attract criticism over her silence concerning the treatment of Burma’s persecuted minorities
Aung San Suu Kyi greets voters
Aung San Suu Kyi visited polling stations to greet voters on Sunday. The NLD leader is contesting a seat in Rangoon division’s Kawhmu township, where support for her is high.
The cult of Aung San Suu Kyi?
While Aung San Suu Kyi has spent weeks campaigning across the country to jubilant crowds, if the opposition leader is elected how effective can she really be in parliament?
Teaser for Aung San Suu Kyi movie: The Lady
Luc Besson’s The Lady will be premiering later this year at the Toronto Film Festival. Leading lady, Aung San Suu Kyi, is played by Michelle Yeoh, and starring opposite her[…]
Aung San Suu Kyi walks free
Opposition icon is released after seven years under house arrest and is currently addressing crowds from behind the gate of her compound in Rangoon
Aung San Suu Kyi, 65
Inside the dilapidated lakeside mansion where Aung San Suu Kyi has been held a prisoner of the Burmese regime for nearly 15 years, the Burmese opposition icon will today celebrate[…]
Aung San Suu Kyi trial update: 14.50pm
*UPDATES ARE IN BURMESE TIME* 17.30: The lawyer of US citizen John William Yettaw has been named as Khin Maung Oo. Yettaw began the first day of his hearing at[…]
Mother-in-law of Aung San Suu Kyi dies
Mar 20, 2009 (DVB), The mother-in-law of imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi died at her house in London earlier this week from natural causes, according to a family[…]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer demands response from government
Mar 18, 2009 (DVB), The lawyer of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a second letter to the government demanding a response to an appeal for her[…]
Nobel laureates launch appeal for Aung San Suu Kyi
Dec 15, 2008 (AFP)
Protests calling for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’s release across the country
The Monday conviction of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have triggered protests country-wide, with media denouncing the sentence of seven years jail time with hard labour.
Wives of convicted Reuters journalists demand their release
Pan Ei Mon and Chit Su Win have demanded their convicted husbands are immediately released, after they were sentenced to seven years imprisonment under the Official Secrets Act on Monday.
Judge convicts Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo under Official Secrets Act
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years prison after being found guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act.
Rangoon protesters arrested minutes after calling for arrest of ‘murderous generals’
Protesters in downtown Rangoon were arrested on Friday morning after calling for the arrest of “murderous” military generals.
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Demand for independent homeland bars Naga group from NCA
A faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland will not be allowed to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement because of the ethnic Naga armed group’s core demand for an independent Naga homeland spanning either side of the Burma-India border, according to government spokesperson Zaw Htay.
Panglong III wraps with delegates tacking 14 points onto ‘Union Accord’
The latest iteration of the “21st Century Panglong Conference” concluded on Monday with participants signing 14 points of agreement as the high-level peace confab came to a close in the capital Naypyidaw.
Third round of ‘Panglong’ peace talks begin
Negotiators gathered on Wednesday to kick off Burma’s latest round of high-level peace talks, ostensibly furthering a process that has bogged down amid ongoing conflict in the country’s border regions.
The battle over Yangon’s Dala bridge
Bridges over major rivers can transform local, as well as national, economies. But not everyone is in favour of building a $168 million bridge linking the congested downtown of Yangon with the poor and rural township of Dala to the south.
‘Four Eights’ drops the numbers; will seek recognition as ‘People’s Party’
Apparently bowing to popular pressure, organisers of an aspirant political party have dropped a contentious effort to affix their brand to numerology that has been a symbol of Burma’s pro-democracy movement for years.
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Police break up protest in Loikaw, site of latest row over Aung San statue
Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday to protest a statue of General Aung San in the Karenni State capital Loikaw, the latest effort to commemorate a man widely regarded as Burma’s founding father that has run up against local resentment.
Man who tossed petrol bomb at Suu Kyi’s residence sentenced to five years in prison
A man charged with throwing a petrol bomb into the compound of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi earlier this year has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Win Naing, 48, was found guilty by a court in Yangon’s Bahan Township.
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Burma rejects citizenship reform at private Rohingya talks
A Burmese national security advisor told diplomats in Copenhagen that a proposal to review the 1982 Citizenship Law, that effectively renders the Rohingya stateless, could not be implemented.
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‘Hate narratives’ from abroad drive Burmese communities apart, Suu Kyi says
Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN “time and patience” is needed to resolve divisions between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Arakan State.
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Police witness no-show as Reuters reporters mark six months in detention
A police witness did not turn up to court on Tuesday in the ongoing case against two Reuters reporters.
Anti-war protesters call on Suu Kyi to act against ‘violent’ police
Anti-war protesters on Wednesday urged government leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take action against police who this month broke up a peace rally and arrested them, and raised new concern about freedom of speech.
Military-bred cabinet member ‘reassigned,’ replaced
Burma’s deputy minister for home affairs, Aung Soe, has been “reassigned to perform his original military duties” and is replaced in the cabinet by Major-General Aung Thu from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, according to the President’s Office.
