US looks to end Burma sanctions after landmark visit
A key US senator on Tuesday backed an end to US sanctions on Burma after a landmark visit by the country's reformist leader, signaling a new normalisation in relations Obama lauds Thein Sein, but expresses concern over violence
US President Barack Obama threw his support behind Burmese President Thein Sein in his drive to reform a former pariah state but warned that a wave of violence against Muslims must stop Thein Sein kicks off US state visit
President Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms Border communities struggle as youth move abroad
They call it “Old Man’s Land”, ravaged by conflict and economic deprivation, Burma’s southeast Mon state is a place bereft of its young, who have flooded President Thein Sein to visit US capital on Monday
Burma’s reform-minded president will speak in Washington on Monday during a landmark visit as the United States encourages changes in the former pariah nation Death toll in Indonesian anti-terror raids reaches seven
Indonesian police have shot dead seven terror suspects in raids over the past two days, including several with alleged links to a plot to bomb the Burmese embassy, officials said Thursday Three Burma bomb plot suspects shot dead in Indonesia
Indonesian anti-terror police on Wednesday shot dead three men suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the Burmese embassy after a seven-hour firefight at their hideout Indonesian police in shoot-out with Burma embassy bomb plot suspects
Indonesian anti-terror police exchanged fire Wednesday with four men holed up in a house and suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the Burmese embassy Six Muslims face death penalty for monk’s murder
Six Muslims on trial in Burma could face the death penalty for the murder of a Buddhist monk during recent religious violence, an official said on Tuesday Thein Sein vows to defend Muslim rights in Burma
Burma’s president on Monday pledged to uphold the "fundamental rights" of Muslims in strife-torn Arakan state, in the wake of deadly religious unrest that has spread across the country.

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