News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
An activist exiled from Myanmar called for the government to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urged the U.S. to continue sanctions against it. Thaung Htun, Myanmar's government-in-exile's unofficial representative to the United...
News Source: BurmaNet
| about 1 month ago
Lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi will take an appeal over her house arrest to Burma’s central court after being rejected by a Rangoon prison court last week. A letter was sent yesterday to the Special Information Branch requesting a meeting between...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Suu Kyi made a formal offer to the regime on September 25 to meet Western diplomats to discuss the impact of sanctions, which critics say have been ineffective and have hurt the Burmese people. She has said she is willing to work with the generals...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
Although details about the meetings have not been made available, government sources confirmed it was about an offer Suu Kyi made last month to help junta leader Senior General Than Shwe persuade Western democracies to lift their economic sanctions...
News Source: GMA News
| about 1 month ago
Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks Wednesday with a junta official, the second such meeting within a week following her call for a new era of cooperation, official sources said. The unannounced meeting between Suu Kyi...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The opposition leader met labour minister Aung Kyi, who is the official liaison between Suu Kyi and the government, for 30-minute talks at a state guest house in Yangon, the official told AFP. On Saturday the pair met for the first time since January...