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The military junta in Burma (Myanmar) is making calculated gestures to loosen its grip ahead of elections next year, the first since 1990. It allowed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet publicly with politicians and for the MTV documentary 'Traffic' to be screened.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Myanmar Saturday, an official told AFP, for an overnight visit as part of a regional tour as his country's likely next leader.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping ended a four-day visit to South Korea on Saturday, leaving for Myanmar as part of a regional tour as his country's likely next leader.
S alt Lake Tribune reporter Julia Lyon says she drew a long stream of negative responses when she tried to make a trip to Thailand to find the Burmese refugee camp where Hser Ner Moo and her family lived before they came to Utah.
Yangon - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Myanmar Saturday for a two-day official visit that was expected to include talks with the ruling military junta's chief, Senior General Than Shwe, government officials said. Xi arrived at Yangon I...
Seven people were killed and 11 injured when a bomb exploded in southeastern Myanmar, official media reported on Friday, blaming ethnic Karen separatists for the attack.
Six people have been killed and 12 injured when a time bomb exploded in Myanmar's restive Karen state on Wednesday night, an official told AFP Thursday.
A bomb planted at a fair celebrating the ethnic Karen minority's New Year holiday killed seven people and wounded 11 others, state media reported Friday.
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s meeting with three senior members of her political party should pave the way for her to be allowed discussions with all the group’s leaders, the U.S. said.
The military junta in Myanmar allowed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with senior members of her party Wednesday, the latest in a recent series of signals that suggest the junta might be responding to diplomatic overtures from the West.
A jailed U.S. citizen who was on hunger strike for more than a week in military-ruled Myanmar attended his trial Friday looking thin and weak, his lawyer said.
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Myanmar's junta allowed detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with three elderly senior members of her party Wednesday in a rare concession by the military regime.
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