Myanmar
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) talks next to Rokia Afzal Rahman (L) President, Banggladesh Federation of Women Enterpreneurs (BFWE) and Helene D. Gayle (R) President and Chief Excutive Officer, CARE USA during attend the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok on June 1, 2012. Suu Kyi urged Myanmar's government to carry out urgent judicial reform to cement recent political progress and foster clean investment in the country.
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We look forward to Myanmar taking leadership of regional groupings as it hosts the BIMSTEC Summit this year and the ASEAN Summit in 2014. We also look forward to the honour of welcoming President Thein Sein in India for the India-ASEAN 20 year Commemorative Summit later this year.
Our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, respected and admired General Aung San and pledged India's full support to Myanmar's freedom. In the early years following independence, India and Myanmar were deeply sympathetic and supportive of each other
We are very much in time and there are lots of opportunities here that we can contribute to the development of Myanmar and, that is what the honorable Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) also said, that along with us, we also have to see that our neighbors prosper, and whatever way Indian companies can contribute to the prosperity, you know we must help.More quotes »
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Suu Kyi got pilot's view on historic trip abroad
(AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi delighted the World Economic Forum by sharing an anecdote about her arrival into Bangkok after 24 years of isolation in Myanmar .Suu Kyi said Friday that the captain of her Thai Airways flight was "so very kind as to invite me to 5/31/12 Read more »
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On Thailand trip, Suu Kyi visits Myanmar migrants
(AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due Wednesday to use her first trip abroad in nearly a quarter-century to visit impoverished migrants whose flight to neighboring Thailand is emblematic of the devastation wrought on her homeland by d Read more »
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The world in 1988, when Suu Kyi last left Myanmar
The world was a different place the last time Aung San Suu Kyi left Myanmar. The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union still existed. Bangkok , the city Suu Kyi visits this week, now has towering skyscrapers, a subway and elevated rail system and slightly mil Read more »
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Magazine wins rare court ruling for Myanmar media
(AP) -- A private news magazine in Myanmar won a rare court victory Wednesday and will not have to reveal the name of a reporter who wrote about corruption at government ministries."The Voice" weekly still faces a defamation suit over the article publish Read more »
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Myanmar: New deal to end fighting with Shan rebels
(AP) -- A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks that there will be no more fighting between the guerrillas and government troops.It is the latest reported agreement between Myanmar's new reform-minded governmen Read more »
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China border towns hope for boom, face backlash
store, in the frontier town of Houqiao, once did a booming business, in the days when trucks loaded with precious teak from Myanmar rolled through, often breaking down along the winding old Burma Road. California drug dealer mistakenly sends wrong text to 3:14 AM from WTOP News Read more »
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China border towns hope for boom, face backlash
oil shipped through the Indian Ocean to thirsty Chinese industries further to the east are placed in fields near Ruili, near Myanmar border,Yunnan Province, China. This remote southwestern Chinese city of about 140,000 nestled in a river valley on the Myanmar 3:12 AM from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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India – Burma – Thailand; Super Highway Coming
During a recent meet in Burma, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Thein Sein agreed upon constructing a super highway linking Guwahati in Assam to Burma’s border with Thailand via Mandalay and the former capital Rangoon. Analysts say that this 3:01 AM from MotorBeam Read more »
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi cautions on 'reckless optimism'
different from what would have met my eyes on landing in Rangoon. But now the difference is considerable," she said. On leaving Myanmar three days ago for an historic trip to Thailand, Suu Kyi said locals were holding candlelight protests across the country 2:53 AM from CNN Read more »
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Initial response by Myanmar on border infiltration encouraging, says Chidambaram
Manmohan Singh during his recent visit, but the initial response was encouraging. "India has raised its two-fold concerns to Myanmar and had received an encouraging response," Chidambaram told media here. "Our concerns are two-fold. Firstly, we don't want 2:52 AM from Webindia123 Read more »
