Myanmar

Suu Kyi in Myanmar parliament as crucial debates...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi claps during a regular session of Parliament at Myanmar's Lower House in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on July 9. (AP Photo)
July 09, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar--Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended the new session of Myanmar's parliament on July 9, a scrum of media recording the start of her first real step...
Myanmar national orchestra ready to return to the...
Yoshikazu Fukumura, right, directs members of the Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra in Yangon on June 29. (Takeshi Fujitani)
July 09, 2012
YANGON, Myanmar--For many years, under military junta rule, the Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra was only allowed to accompany popular songs or perform folk music in...
UPDATE: Myanmar activists released on crackdown...
July 08, 2012
YANGON--Myanmar authorities released 20 student leaders detained during the 50th anniversary of an army crackdown on July 7, a prominent activist said after a series of police...
Myanmar activists arrested on eve of crackdown...
July 07, 2012
YANGON -- Myanmar police rounded up at least 16 student leaders ahead of the 50th anniversary of a brutal army crackdown, activists and family members said on Saturday, raising ...
Ethnic violence in Myanmar continues unimpeded...
Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, sit in a boat after being intercepted crossing the Naf River by Bangladesh border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, on June 13. Bangladesh has turned back more than 1,500 refugees in recent days, officials said and a global human rights group urged Bangladesh to keep its border open to people seeking refuge from sectarian violence in western Myanmar. (AP Photo)
July 06, 2012
More than a month after violence broke out between Muslims and Buddhists in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, there are no signs of a restoration of order even though the...
Myanmar tycoon says pulling out of Dawei project
Workers unload construction materials in January at a temporary pier in Dawei, Myanmar, where the development project is being planned. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
July 04, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar -- The leading local partner in the Dawei port and industrial complex in Myanmar being led by Thailand's Italian-Thai Development Pcl. said on July 4 he was...
Parliament members say Myanmar poised for cabinet...
Myanmar President Thein Sein (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
July 04, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar -- Myanmar President Thein Sein plans to reshuffle his cabinet and appoint a new vice-president soon to reduce the influence of anti-reform ministers and...
Myanmar frees at least three political prisoners in ...
Myanmar's President Thein Sein (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
July 03, 2012
YANGON--Myanmar's president has freed 46 people in a general amnesty, state media reported on July 3, and at least three were prominent political prisoners according to a...
Myanmar arrests 30 over killing of 10 Muslims
Myanmar soldiers patrol in a street at a village in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state in western Myanmar on June 14. (AP Photo)
July 02, 2012
YANGON -- Police in Myanmar have arrested 30 people in connection with the vigilante killing of 10 Muslims that helped spark days of sectarian violence in Rakhine state last...
Suu Kyi returns from triumphant European tour
Myanmar political leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes part in a round table at The London School of Economics and Political Science during the first public event of her U.K. visit in London on June 19. (AP photo)
June 30, 2012
YANGON, Myanmar--Cheering crowds welcomed Aung San Suu Kyi home on June 30 from her triumphant tour of Europe, where she won enthusiastic support for her role in Myanmar's...
Myanmar govt chides Suu Kyi for calling country...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes an address to a joint session of both Houses of Parliament, as Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow looks on, in Westminster Hall, in London, on June 21, 2012. (AP file photo)
June 30, 2012
YANGON -- Myanmar's government berated Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for disrespecting the constitution by calling the country Burma, the latest sign of a straining ...
Human rights group says China has forced refugees...
In this Aug. 11, 2011 photo released by Human Rights Watch, an elderly Kachin refugee and children look after the belongings of others who were out working, inside a shelter near the Chinese-Myanmar border in Yunnan province, China. (AP Photo)
June 27, 2012
BEIJING--Chinese authorities have forced back into Myanmar some ethnic Kachin refugees who have fled across the border to escape civil war, and China is denying basic care to...
Report: China forcing refugees back to Myanmar...
June 26, 2012
BEIJING -- Chinese authorities are forcing back into Myanmar some of the ethnic Kachin refugees who have fled into China trying to escape civil war, and Beijing is denying...
Suu Kyi makes history with UK parliament address
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes an address to a joint session of both Houses of Parliament, as Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow looks on, in Westminster Hall, in London, on June 21, 2012. (AP Photo)
June 22, 2012
LONDON--Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi became only the second woman after Queen Elizabeth to address both houses of Britain's parliament on June 21, a rare honor she used to ask...
UPDATE: Aung San Suu Kyi finally gets honorary...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to people following an award ceremony at the Oxford University, Oxford, England, on June 20. (AP Photo)
June 21, 2012
OXFORD, England -- It was a long wait, but Aung San Suu Kyi has finally received her honorary degree from Oxford University.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits London, Oxford on U.K. tour
Myanmar political leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes part in a round table at The London School of Economics and Political Science during the first public event of her U.K. visit in London on June 19. (AP photo)
June 19, 2012
LONDON--Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi started a week-long visit to Britain on June 19, telling hundreds of students and academics that time alone will not heal the ...
U.S. praises Myanmar's response to sectarian clashes
Myanmar policemen provide security at a village in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state in western Myanmar, where sectarian violence is erupting on June 11. (AP photo)
June 19, 2012
YANGON--The United States on June 19 praised Myanmar's response to recent deadly sectarian fighting, despite criticism by rights group Amnesty International that Muslim...
Myanmar's president promises second wave of reform
Myanmar's President Thein Sein (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
June 19, 2012
YANGON--Myanmar wants to loosen the state's grip on the economy, President Thein Sein said on June 19, outlining what he called "a second wave of reforms" that would focus on...
Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation
Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the Nobel ceremony at Oslo's City Hall, Norway, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/ POOL)
June 16, 2012
OSLO, Norway-- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared on June 16 that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her...
Safety fears restrict relief work after Myanmar...
Myanmar soldiers stand in the debris of burned houses in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state in western Myanmar, Friday, June 15, 2012. The communal violence that swept through Rakhine over the past week killed dozens of people. (AP Photo)
June 16, 2012
SITTWE, Myanmar-- Armed troops patrolled Myanmar's northwest city of Sittwe June 15 as a fragile peace held in the wake of days of sectarian violence that has stoked...