Myanmar Elections

Myanmar Icon Refuses Parliament Seats

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 04.23.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar — Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and the rest of her party's newly elected lawmakers will not attend Monday's opening session o...

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The Lady She's a Goddess: A Talk With Luc Besson and Michelle Yeoh

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 04.09.2012

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This month, an exceptional film about Suu Kyi and her struggles, directed by Luc Besson and titled The Lady comes to U.S. screens. It is a film that reminded me why I love cinema.

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China: Myanmar Sanctions Should Be Lifted

AP | Posted 04.05.2012

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BEIJING -- China on Thursday called for Western countries to immediately lift their punitive sanctions on Myanmar in the wake of by-elections won by o...

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HISTORIC ELECTION: Myanmar Opposition Icon Elected To Parliament

AP | TODD PITMAN and AYE AYE WIN | Posted 04.02.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar — She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace ...

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PHOTOS: Tips For Visiting Myanmar Now

Simone Girner | Posted 04.01.2012

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If things continue to change as fast as they have been, it will be different to visit even six months from now, let alone years when -- predictably, hopefully -- the sanctions will have been lifted and U.S. and European investors will have discovered this culturally rich place.

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Democracy Icon Set To Win Office In Historic Vote

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 04.01.2012

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WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar — Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for he...

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Why Myanmar's Elections Matter

AP | GRANT PECK | Posted 03.30.2012

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BANGKOK -- Myanmar's special election Sunday is for a small portion of parliament seats, but has taken on immense symbolic importance because it will ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Elections Will Be Neither Free Nor Fair

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 03.31.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday that Myanmar's landmark weekend elections will be neither free nor fair because...

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From Icon To Parliament

AP | JOCELYN GECKER | Posted 05.07.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar -- On Yangon's teeming streets, 2012 is the year of Aung San Suu Kyi. Her once-banished image now appears everywhere, on T-shirts, ke...

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Suu Kyi May Run For Parliament In Myanmar

AP | Posted 04.06.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's Election Commission has given opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the green light to run for parliamentary by-electio...

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Burma or Myanmar: Is This a de Klerk Moment?

Jack Healey | Posted 03.13.2012

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The civilian/military government of Myanmar now is making moves that may be similar to de Klerk, the Prime Minister of the last apartheid government in South Africa.

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Aung San Suu Kyi Plans To Run For Myanmar Parliament

AP | AYE AYE WIN | Posted 01.20.2012

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YANGON, Myanmar — Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming by-elections, a decision that was expected aft...

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Burma Election Reignites Ethnic Tensions

The Irrawaddy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The seizure of two Burmese border towns by ethnic rebels is a significant move in the ethnic armed struggle of the past 20 years, and the latest attac...

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Myanmar Election Violence Causespost-polls fighting

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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YANGON, Myanmar — Fighting between ethnic rebels and government troops rumbled on for a third day Tuesday as activists warned that the violence,...

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Aung San Suu Kyi To Be Freed?

AP | JIM GOMEZ and VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 05.25.2011

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HANOI, Vietnam — Southeast Asia's top diplomats confronted Myanmar by demanding that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi be freed before the country's e...

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FREE AT LAST: Emotional Photos From Aung San Suu Kyi's Release

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi took her first steps back into Myanmar's political minefield Sunday, vowing to press a...

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Aung San Suu Kyi RELEASED: PHOTOS Of The Detained Myanmar Opposition Leader

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

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Having been hailed as the "new Mandela," Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed Nov. 13 after her military-imposed house arrest finally ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi, Detained Myanmar Opposition Leader, Expected To Be Freed Six Days After 'Sham' Election

Posted 05.25.2011

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Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to be released from house arrest just six days after a military-backed party won her...

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Burma CYBER ATTACK Underway As Election Nears

The Jakarta Globe | Posted 05.25.2011

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A massive cyber attack has crippled Internet services in Burma ahead of Sunday's election, IT experts and Web service providers say, raising fears of ...

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The Burmese Elections: Prolonging the Misery and Postponing the Inevitable

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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This election is evidence that their last shreds of political legitimacy have evaporated. The international community has to recognize this inevitable "victory" for what it is -- the last gasp of a decaying system.

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US, ASEAN Drop Call For Suu Kyi's Release

AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 05.25.2011

SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face i...

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Myanmar To Hold First Elections Since 1990

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's ruling junta chief confirmed Monday that the country's first general elections in two decades will be held this year...

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