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Photostream : U.S. President Barack Obama meets Aung San Suu Kyi
November 19, 2012 
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Obama to people of Myanmar: America ‘is with you’
November 19, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people. “You gave us hope,” he declared, the first U.S. president to visit what not long ago had been an international outcast. Tens of thousands of people […]
Read moreObama extending ‘hand of friendship’ to Myanmar
November 19, 2012 Comments Off
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — En route to a historic visit to long shunned Myanmar, President Barack Obama says he comes to “extend the hand of friendship” to a nation moving from persecution to peace. But the praise and personal attention come with an admonition from Obama: The work of democracy has just begun. “Instead […]
Read moreMyanmar panel says Aung San Suu Kyi can run for Parliament
February 6, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s Election Commission on Monday gave opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the green light to run for parliamentary by-elections, another step toward political openness in a country emerging from nearly a half-century of iron-fisted military rule. Suu Kyi announced her intention last month to run in the April elections […]
Read moreMyanmar’s Suu Kyi calls for changes to constitution
January 29, 2012 Comments Off
DAWEI, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for changes to the military-draftedconstitution in her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country’s political system last year and announcing plans to run for parliament. Thousands of people lined the roads shouting “Long live mother Suu” as her motorcade moved through the […]
Read moreMyanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi making first campaign tour
January 29, 2012 Comments Off
DAWEI, Myanmar (AP) — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made her first campaign tour for parliament Sunday in Myanmar’s countryside, advancing a bid that shows how quickly and dramatically politics is changing in this long-repressed Southeast Asian nation. Thousands of cheering supporters crowded the airport to greet Suu Kyi in the southern town ofDawei and lined the roads shouting: “Long […]
Read moreHillary Clinton calls Myanmar’s foreign minister, Aung San Suu Kyi
January 15, 2012 Comments Off
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toldMyanmar’s foreign minister and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a call on Saturday the United States is “committed to walking down the path of reform” with the Southeast Asian nation. One day after President Barack Obama’s administration said it would upgrade ties with Myanmar in response to its amnesty for hundreds […]
Read moreSouth Korea welcomes Myanmar’s release of political prisoners
January 14, 2012 Comments Off
SEOUL — South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday it welcomed Myanmar’s release of hundreds of political prisoners. “Our government expects Myanmar’s government to continue to take active steps toward democracy and reconciliation,” the ministry said in a statement. The statement came a day after the Southeast Asian country freed hundreds of political prisoners, including […]
Read moreMyanmar’s Suu Kyi could get govt role
January 8, 2012 Comments Off
YANGON — Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi could be given a job in Myanmar’s nominally civilian government if she is elected to parliament in April by-elections, a presidential adviser said on Sunday. The Nobel laureate, who could be propelled into a parliament still largely composed of the military and ruling army-backed party, would […]
Read moreMyanmar sets April by-elections, Suu Kyi set to run
December 31, 2011 Comments Off
Myanmar — Myanmar has set a date of April 1, 2012, for by-elections that could see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi enter parliament, although the military’s grip on the assembly will not be threatened. State television announced the date late Friday. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) refused to take part in […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi’s party gets OK to register in Myanmar
December 13, 2011 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s state-run media says the government has approved opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to register for a coming by-election, formally bringing the pro-democracy group back into the country’s political arena. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy decided last month to rejoin politics in the military-dominated country after recent reforms by the nominally civilian administration […]
Read moreUS Myanmar envoy to visit Japan, China, S.Korea
December 7, 2011 Comments Off
The US special envoy to Myanmar will begin a tour of 3 Asian nations on Thursday in an attempt to foster cooperation in promoting democracy there. A US State Department official says Derek Mitchell will visit South Korea, Japan and China between December 8th and 13th. Mitchell is expected to brief the 3 nations […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi candidacy welcomed
November 26, 2011 Comments Off
The speaker of Myanmar’s lower house says pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s candidacy in the upcoming parliamentary by-elections is a welcome move. Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, made the remark at his first news conference as house speaker on Friday. The opposition National League for Democracy party led by Aung San Suu […]
Read moreExclusive: Aung San Suu Kyi to run in upcoming Myanmar by-election
November 21, 2011 Comments Off
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will run in an upcoming by-election, a senior official in her party said on Monday, three days after her National League for Democracy ended its boycott of the country’s political system. It will be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has competed in an election since 1990, when her […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi ‘Likely” to Run in Burma By-Election
November 12, 2011 Comments Off
A spokesman for Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is likely to run in a by-election in coming month, following a change to party registration laws. Nyan Win, of the National League for Democracy, told the French news agency the NLD is likely to register and the Nobel Peace laureate is […]
Read morePhotostream : Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa meets Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi
October 30, 2011 Comments Off
Myanmar frees dissident Zarganar in amnesty
October 12, 2011 Comments Off
YANGON, October 12, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / AFP) — Myanmar released the prominent comedian and dissident Zarganar from prison on Wednesday as part of a mass amnesty by the new leadership, his family said, AFP reported. “I have talked to him. He is free now,” the activist’s sister-in-law Ma Nyein told AFP, adding that that he was expected to […]
Read moreMyanmar to give amnesty to 6,300 prisoners
October 12, 2011 Comments Off
YANGON, Myanmar, October 12, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / AP) — Myanmar’s newly elected civilian government was poised Wednesday to release more than 6,300 prisoners in an amnesty that could help patch up the country’s human rights record and normalize relations with Western nations, AP reported. It was widely expected that many of the country’s estimated 2,000political prisoners would […]
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