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Suu Kyi's party clashes with Myanmar army over proposal to change charter
Myanmar's ruling party clashed with military lawmakers on Tuesday as it proposed steps toward changing the constitution, its biggest challenge in nearly three years to the army's power over politics as enshrined in the charter. Military members of (...)

29 - 01 - 2019
Troops in Myanmar's Rakhine on high alert after killings of Rohingya
Troops in Myanmar's northeastern Rakhine state were put on high alert on Tuesday, police and sources said, after nearly 200 Rakhine Buddhist villagers fled the area after a recent spate of killings and amid fears of fresh attacks by Rohingya (...)

29 - 06 - 2017
Suu Kyi may pull a Sonia Gandhi in Myanmar govt
Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is unlikely to take a formal position in the incoming government of her National League for Democracy (NLD), a senior official said, and will control the administration through her position as party (...)

22 - 03 - 2016
Suu Kyi loyalist and friend elected Myanmar president
Myanmar's Parliament elected Htin Kyaw as the country's new president on Tuesday in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule. The joint (...)

16 - 03 - 2016
Myanmar military chooses hard-liner to work with Suu Kyi's proxy president
Myanmar's military nominated a former junta stalwart who remains on a US sanctions list as its choice for vice president on Friday, pointing to battles ahead for National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her hand-picked (...)

13 - 03 - 2016
Myanmar military plane crash kills 4
Four Myanmar military personnel were killed and one survived Wednesday when an air force utility aircraft crashed after taking off from the airport in the capital Naypyitaw, AP quoted officials as saying. An Information Ministry statement identified (...)

10 - 02 - 2016
Myanmar presidential vote to start on March 17 as transition talks drag on
Myanmar's parliament will begin its election of the new president on March 17, cutting very close to an April 1 deadline, suggesting talks between Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious party and the military are likely to take longer than planned. But a top (...)

09 - 02 - 2016
From icon to politician: As Myanmar changes, so does Suu Kyi
When Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi spoke warmly on a recent radio show about a critical meeting that followed her landslide election victory, she was referring to talks with the very man who had detained her for 15 years. Listeners might have been (...)

15 - 12 - 2015
China ties deserve close attention: Suu Kyi
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to pay "special attention" to ties with China when her party takes office after its election triumph, and said foreign investments would need public support to help improve relations. In an interview with China's (...)

19 - 11 - 2015
Myanmar ruling party concedes poll defeat as Suu Kyi heads for landslide
Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in the country's general election on Monday, as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that would ensure it can form the next government. "We (...)

10 - 11 - 2015
Myanmar's parliament extends martial law along Chinese border
AlQa'dah 03, 1436, August 18, 2015, SPA -- Myanmar's parliament voted on Tuesday to again extend martial law for three months in a restive area along the country's border with China, where there have been clashes between the military and an armed (...)

18 - 08 - 2015
Kerry urges talks to ease China Sea tensions
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to head off another international crisis and is urging China and its smaller neighbors to peacefully resolve mounting tensions over maritime disputes in Asian waters, AP reported. Speaking to the foreign (...)

10 - 08 - 2014
Kerry tries to ease Asian territorial disputes
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried Sunday to calm the brewing storm over territorial disputes in Asian waters, appealing to China and its neighbors to settle their differences and ease tensions, AP reported. Kerry said at a meeting of the (...)

10 - 08 - 2014
Suu Kyi makes historic debut
Aung San Suu Kyi completed her historic journey from political prisoner to parliamentarian Wednesday, assuming public office for the first time in a risky new strategy to work alongside Myanmar's new reform-minded government after her 24-year (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
Myanmar president vows more democratic reform
Myanmar's president has vowed that his government will continue the sweeping reforms it has instituted over the last year, according to AP. But Thein Sein says much remains to be done and his administration will have to work hard to convince (...)

01 - 03 - 2012
US Secretary of State Clinton meets Myanmar president
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held talks Thursday with Myanmar's new reform-minded President Thein Sein and elected parliamentarians, at the start of a two-day fact-finding mission to this state, according to Reuters. "This is (...)

01 - 12 - 2011
Myanmar shelves controversial dam project
AlQa'dah 2, 1432, Sep 30, 2011, SPA -- Myanmar said Friday it will stop construction on a controversial hydroelectric dam in the north of the country, in a move expected to ease tensions with ethnic minorities, dpa reported. "I have just received (...)

30 - 09 - 2011
Myanmar's new government vows not to harm the Irrawaddy
Myanmar's new government will conduct an environmental impact study of a dam on the Irrawaddy River before going ahead with the project, which has been criticized by opposition figures and environmentalists, officials said Friday, according to (...)

12 - 08 - 2011
New Myanmar government to drop foreign exchange certificates
Myanmar's new government is planning to withdraw foreign exchange certificates (FECs) from the market, after imposing them on foreigners for almost two decades, officials said Friday, according to dpa. "In the near future there will be no more (...)

12 - 08 - 2011
Myanmar denies UN chief's request to see Suu Kyi
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon could leave Myanmar empty-handed after apparently failing to win any concessions today from the country's top military ruler or to gain permission to visit opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in jail, according (...)

03 - 07 - 2009
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