News Source: The independent
| 17 days ago
Smiling and joking with photographers granted a rare opportunity to see her in public, the detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held a two-hour meeting with a senior US diplomat in what may mark the beginning of an important shift in...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 17 days ago
A further 22 people were reported missing after the storm struck on Monday, destroying hundreds of homes, according to local reports and regional officials who asked not to be named. Television pictures from the provinces of Phu Yen and Gia Lai,...
News Source: Macleans
| 17 days ago
Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption. Family members said he died early Wednesday in Yangon's Insein Prison, where he was sent after his conviction...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 17 days ago
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell also met Burma Prime Minister Thein Sein as part of efforts by the Obama administration to re-engage with the hardline military regime...Campbell said at Rangoon airport...
News Source: Voice of America
| 17 days ago
The most senior U.S. diplomat to visit Burma in 14 years says Washington wants better relations with that Southeast Asian country, if its military government takes concrete steps toward democracy. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell ended a...
News Source: BurmaNet
| 17 days ago
U.S. diplomats Kurt Campbell and Scot Marciel are visiting Burma this week to test the Obama administration’s new policy of engagement with authoritarian regimes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asserted this policy will “help achieve...