Tag Archives: Burma
Photostream : Suu Kyi finally gets honorary doctorate from Oxford University
June 20, 2012 
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Many thousands cheer Aung San Suu Kyi in Norway fjord town
June 18, 2012 Comments Off
(AFP) — Aung San Suu Kyi received another hero’s welcome as many thousands cheered the Myanmar democracy icon on Sunday in a Norwegian fjord town that has a long connection with her freedom struggle. The Rafto Foundation, based in Bergen, gave Suu Kyi her first international award 22 years ago, when she was under house arrest in the country also known […]
Read moreSuu Kyi warns investors off Myanmar’s state oil & gas firm
June 14, 2012 Comments Off
GENEVA (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi urged foreign governments not to allow their companies to form joint ventures with the state-owned oil and gas company until it improved its business practices. Suu Kyi, speaking to the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva on Thursday, said: “The Myanma Oil […]
Read moreBurma’s Aung San Suu Kyi begins landmark Europe visit
June 14, 2012 Comments Off
(BBC) — Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Geneva, where she will address the United Nations at the start of a visit to Europe. She is due to make a speech at the UN’s International Labour Organisation, which has led a long campaign against child and slave labour in […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi set for landmark European tour
June 13, 2012 Comments Off
(AFP) — Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is set to leave Myanmar Wednesday on her first trip to Europe since 1988 to formally accept the Nobel prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. For years, the opposition leader did not dare leave the country — even to see her […]
Read morePhotostream : Aung San Suu Kyi meets Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
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First Foreign Trip for Aung San Suu Kyi
May 26, 2012 Comments Off
(RADIO FREE ASIA) — Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to make her first visit to a foreign country in more than 20 years when she travels to Thailand next week to meet with the country’s prime minister and attend a regional conference, according to officials from her political party. […]
Read moreLee Myung-bak makes 1st SKorean trip to Myanmar since attack
May 14, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar tightened security for an official visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago. A statement from his office said Lee was flying first to Naypyitaw to meet with Myanmar’s PresidentThein Sein as part of a two-day visit that “is expected […]
Read moreKesabaran 20 Tahun “The Lady” Aung San Suu Kyi Ke Kursi Parlemen
May 3, 2012 Comments Off
Jakarta, 3 Mei 2012 (KATAKAMI.COM) — Sulit mencari figur yang dapat mengimbangi kesabaran, ketabahan, kegigihan dan keteguhan semangat anti kekerasan yang dimiliki secara utuh dan sangat mengagumkan dari seorang ikon pro demokrasi di Myanmar ( Burma), Aung San Suu Kyi. Anak dari pasangan pahlawan nasional Myanmar, Jenderal Aung San dan Khin Kyi ini lahir […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi becomes an MP as Myanmar enters new phase
May 2, 2012 Comments Off
MYANMAR (AFP) — Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a member of parliament Wednesday, opening a new chapter in the Nobel laureate’s near quarter-century struggle against authoritarian rule. The 66-year-old, in the capital Naypyidaw for the ceremony, stood to read the brief oath in unison with 33 other members of herNational League […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi’s party to end boycott of Myanmar’s parliament
April 30, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party agreed on Monday to end a boycott of parliament and swear an oath to protect the constitution that it had resisted, party officials said, setting aside a dispute with the government. Officials in her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said they could attend parliament from Wednesday. “As […]
Read moreEU opens office in Myanmar
April 29, 2012 Comments Off
The European Union has opened an office in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, amid the country’s political reforms toward democratization. The first ever EU office in Myanmar will help promote personnel exchanges between the 2 sides, and support European companies that want to make inroads into the country. At the opening ceremony on Saturday, EU […]
Read moreMyanmar parliament stand-off a “technical matter:” Suu Kyi
April 26, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyisaid Thursday she was hopeful a dispute over Myanmar’s legislative oath would be overcome soon, calling it a “technical problem” that should not end in political deadlock. Suu Kyi and members of her political party are refusing to take their seats in parliament over the oath’s wording, a move that risks unraveling […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi hopes Myanmar oath dispute is settled soon
April 26, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyisaid Thursday she was hopeful a dispute over Myanmar’s legislative oath would be overcome soon, calling it a “technical problem” that should not end in political deadlock. Suu Kyi and members of her political party are refusing to take their seats in parliament over the oath’s wording, a move that risks […]
Read moreUN Chief to meet Aung San Suu Kyi for first time
April 24, 2012 Comments Off
UNITED NATIONS — UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Monday he will visit Myanmar to support democratic reforms and called for a “harmonious” deal allowing opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take an oath as a deputy. Ban said he will leave for Myanmar at the end of the week and meet with Suu […]
Read moreU.N. Chief to visit Myanmar to encourage reforms
April 24, 2012 Comments Off
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Monday he would visit Myanmar soon to encourage the Southeast Asian nation to press ahead withdemocratic reforms. “I have accepted an invitation from President Thein Shein to visit Myanmar,” Ban told reporters. “I will depart at the end of this week.” “We have seen encouraging political and economic reforms over the past […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi to leave Burma for first time in decades
April 18, 2012 Comments Off
Aung San Suu Kyi is to travel outside Burma for the first time in 24 years after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain in June, her party has said. Her travel plans follow months of change in Burma, including 1 April’s historic byelections that saw her elected to parliament after nearly five decades of military rule. The Nobel […]
Read morePhotostream : British PM David Cameron meets with Pro-democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi
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British PM in Myanmar to hear case to end sanctions
April 13, 2012 Comments Off
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron made on Friday an historic visit to Myanmar where he plans to tell its president he is ready to urge an easing of European sanctions if convinced of the former general’s reform credentials. In the first visit to Myanmar by a Western leader in decades, Cameron will meet Nobel […]
Read moreU.S. moves to ease Myanmar sanctions after reforms
April 5, 2012 Comments Off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday it was ready to relax some sanctions on Myanmar to recognize its fledgling democratic transition, including a ban on U.S. companies investing in or offering financial services to the country. However, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed the Obama administration wanted to move cautiously, […]
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