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TOKYO: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono conveyed serious concern over Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims to the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in a meeting...

Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to the United States next Sunday, a spokesman for her party told AFP, in a...

Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to the United States next Sunday, a spokesman for her party told AFP, in a...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, is facing a backlash from fellow pro-democracy campaigners who are dismayed at her refusal to speak...

Myanmar honoured democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's father and eight other slain independence heroes at an official ceremony Thursday that underscored the political...

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday brushed off orders from Myanmar’s government to stop calling the country “Burma”, a name widely used...

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday brushed off orders from Myanmar's government to stop calling the country "Burma", a name widely used...

After a triumphant European tour where she was lauded by crowds, stars and governments, Aung San Suu Kyi returns to the reality of domestic...

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday pledged to keep up her struggle for democracy as she finally delivered her Nobel Peace Prize speech,...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conferred the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Award for Democracy on Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The president especially...

YANGON - Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi called for citizens of her country to rejuvenate their struggle for national reconciliation in 2011 in a New Year's message released on Friday.
She asked the people of Myanmar "to struggle together with new strengths, new force and new words in the auspicious new year", in the message released by her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
"We must struggle by establishing people's political and social networks to get

Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh has jetted into Burma to shadow recently released political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi as she prepares to play the democracy campaigner in a big screen biopic.
The actress spent Monday with Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, who was freed from house arrest in the country last month. The democracy icon had been detained for 15 of the past 21 years because of her political views.
'Tomorrow Never Dies' star Yeoh

YANGON: A United States official arrived in army-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday for talks with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was recently freed from house arrest, plus a minister and newly elected lawmakers, a government official said.
The visit by Joseph Yun, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, is seen as a move by Washington to test the political waters in Myanmar, a month after a controversial general election and Suu Kyi's release from

YANGON: Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi met a senior UN official in Yangon on Saturday but said further talks were needed to help the organisation in its Myanmar operations.
After speaking with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, at her home Suu Kyi told reporters that the discussions had been enlightening.
"It was a pleasure to meet Mr Nambiar but I don't think one meeting is enough," she said. "I hope this is the first of many meetings because

YANGON: Myanmar's Supreme Court has refused to hear democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's lawsuit against the junta for dissolving her party ahead of elections, an official in the army-ruled country said Monday.
"The case was rejected by the Supreme Court in Naypyidaw," a government official, who did not want to named, told AFP.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was disbanded for boycotting the November 7 vote in response to rules that seemed designed to bar the

YANGON: Myanmar's newly freed Aung San Suu Kyi was "ready for dialogue" with the regime, her lawyer said Monday, as the democracy icon knuckled down to the task of rebuilding her weakened party.
The 65-year-old spent several hours at her National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in meetings with regional party members, ending her first day back at work in years with a trip to a Yangon monastery.
Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest on Saturday, less than a week after

YANGON: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for freedom of speech in army-ruled Myanmar on Sunday and urged thousands of supporters to stand up for their rights and not lose heart, indicating she might pursue a political role.
"Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. I will accept the people keeping me in check," she said in her first major address since being freed from seven years of house arrest a day earlier.
Suu Kyi could give Myanmar a strong