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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.
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)
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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.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
‘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.
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.
Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi meets with UN envoys
She told the Security Council members ‘please bring to our notice any infringement of these laws and we will do whatever is necessary to take the action’.
Chin students oppose Aung San statue
Aung San, who is the father of State Counsellor Suu Kyi, is widely accredited with winning independence from the British in 1947.
As Burma’s economy rebounds, sanctions risk gives some investors pause: IMF
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government is opening the economy and growth is rebounding in Burma, though the possibility of broader Western sanctions over the Rohingya crisis is nevertheless giving some foreign investors pause, according to a senior IMF official.
Marking two years in power, Suu Kyi urges nation to stay united amid ‘challenges’
Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for her people to remain united, saying the Southeast Asian country faces “challenges” at home and abroad, as she marked two years since her party swept to power in a historic vote.
UN chief ‘shocked’ by Min Aung Hlaing’s latest comments on Rohingya
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed “shock” at comments by Burma’s military chief in which he said the Rohingya minority shared nothing in common with the rest of the population and that their demand for citizenship had stoked recent violence.
Meditation and law: The Suu Kyi loyalist tipped for Burma’s presidency
Win Myint, the long-serving member of Burma’s ruling party who is expected to become the country’s next president within days, is described by colleagues as a skilled political operator with a crucial quality — loyalty to de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Australian AG rejects bid to prosecute Suu Kyi for crimes against humanity
Australian Attorney General Christian Porter said he would not allow the prosecution of Suu Kyi, who arrived in Sydney on Saturday.
US Holocaust museum rescinds award to Suu Kyi
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s minority Rohingya Muslims, the museum said on Wednesday.
Interview Lead Story News Rakhine
Thai head of Rakhine advisory body: ‘Suu Kyi still represents hope’
Former Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai, head of the Advisory Board to the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State, discusses the challenges of his new role.
Suspect in attack on Suu Kyi home to face trial regardless of mental health
The Yangon Police Force has announced that the suspected perpetrator of an attack in which a petrol bomb was hurled at State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence in Yangon will be prosecuted regardless of his medical condition.
Suu Kyi’s lakeside home in Yangon hit with Molotov cocktail
A petrol bomb was hurled at the Yangon residence of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday morning. No one was injured at the compound and Burma’s de facto leader was away in Naypyidaw at the time.
Lead Story News Rakhine Rohingya
‘Isolated’ Suu Kyi remains Burma’s best hope, says Richardson
“I think the Myanmar military is to blame a lot and the only person that can turn them around, I believe, is Aung San Suu Kyi, and she should start doing that.”
International Relations Lead Story News
Duterte offers Suu Kyi ‘pity,’ says rights activists are ‘just a noisy bunch’
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, heavily criticised abroad for failing to stand up for largely stateless Rohingya Muslims, that she shouldn’t bother about rights activists as they are “just a noisy bunch.”
