YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar freed an outspoken critic and a major ethnic rebel as it began releasing 6,300 convicts Wednesday in its latest liberalizing move, but kept some political detainees behind bars, dampening hopes for a broader amnesty. It was not clear how many of the country’s estimated 2,000 political detainees were included in the [...]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s repressive government was allowing access to banned news websites Friday for the first time in years, including several operated by exiled dissidents. The unannounced move is the latest step taken by the Southeast Asian nation’s new leaders to boost hope, however faint, that authoritarian rule here could finally be easing. [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai veterinarians say a 22-year-old elephant was wounded after he wandered into neighboring Myanmar and stepped on a land mine. Soraida Salwala of the Friends of the Asian Elephant conservation group in northern Thailand says the pachyderm’s left foot was severely hurt in Sunday’s blast in Myanmar’s Kayin state. Salwala said Tuesday [...]
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s president says his government is trying to ease tensions between political factions and reach out for better relations with the country’s numerous ethnic groups. President Thein Sein told Parliament Monday that the government will listen to opposition groups. He met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week. He says [...]
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi says she is pleased about her first meeting with the military-dominated country’s new president. It was the opposition leader’s highest contact with the new government since her release from house arrest in November. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate told reporters she was “happy and [...]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government invited democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to a meeting Friday with the president, an official said, in her highest contact with the new, nominally civilian government since her release from house arrest in November. Details of Suu Kyi’s nearly one-hour meeting with President Thein Sein were not immediately [...]
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government is urging pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to officially register her National League for Democracy as a party so it can legally take part in politics. Information Minister Kyaw Hsan told a rare news conference Friday that the government has not cracked down on the group so far [...]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has joined other activists marking the anniversary of the anti-military uprising that inspired their still uncompleted crusade to bring democracy to Myanmar. Suu Kyi, her colleagues and 350 followers gathered Monday at a monastery in western Yangon to recall how about 1 million people rose up on Aug. [...]
The August 2011 issue of National Geographic draws a fascinating portrait of Myanmar, as its currently experiencing its first taste of a nominally civilian government in half a century. National Geographic reporter Brooke Larmer and photographer Chien-Chi Chang take an in-depth look at a nation emerging from its isolation. As they report: Myanmar is a land of shadows, [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights group criticized Myanmar’s army Wednesday for forcing prison inmates onto the front lines of the country’s conflict with ethnic militias, using some as human shields and executing others who tried to escape. Human Rights Watch said the military’s use of “convict slave labor” constituted war crimes that should be investigated by the [...]
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