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• Myanmar: New deal to end fighting with Shan rebels

  Kengtung, that recent clashes were a result of misunderstanding over the firing of warning shots.Myanmar President Thein Sein 's government has reached cease-fires with several ethnic rebel groups, but fierce fighting continues with the Kachin minority in   Read more »

• Myanmar activists say go slow on easing sanctions

  It became a hurricane of change when the long-embattled pro-democracy party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi endorsed Thein Sein's reform campaign.When Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won 43 of the 45 parliamentary seats at stake in by-elections   Read more »

• Myanmar president meets with rebels

  groups as part of the political reforms started last year after decades of repression under military rule.An adviser to Thein Sein said Myanmar wants the United States to ease sanctions faster after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said some restrictions   Read more »

• Myanmar, Karen rebel group firm up cease-fire

  had been clashes between the two sides after the January agreement.The military-backed but elected government of President Thein Sein is seeking cease-fires with ethnic rebel groups as part of political reforms started last year after decades of repression   Read more »

• HEAD Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi

  conference in Washington. "This would further propel momentum in our bilateral relations."Suu Kyi said she was confident that Thein Sein "wishes for democratic reform, but as I've always said, I have never been certain as to exactly how much support there   Read more »

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• BURMA RELATED NEWS – MAY 30, 2012

  crowd, many of whom said they never thought the day would come. “There’s no better feeling in the world than what happened,” Sein told CNN through migrant rights activist Andy Hall. “He said he’s happy beyond words, cannot describe the feeling. So positive,” 5/30/12 from Burma Digest Read more »

• Suu Kyi, in Myanmar since 1988, starts her world tour

  leader in Parliament, as Myanmar opens to the outside world and sheds a half century of military rule, with President Thein Sein getting her back for am ambitious program of reforms. Meetings with world leaders are planned along the way as dignitaries line   from TwinCities.com Read more »

• Suu Kyi Makes Thailand Trip

  tensions with Burmese President Thein Sein, Democratic leader and activist Aung Sung Suu Kyi is making major strides in her new parliamentary role. The long-time political prisoner arrived in Thailand on Tuesday night—her first trip away from Burma in 24 years—where   from The Daily Beast Read more »

• PM address to Myanmar think tanks, business community

  as it hosts the BIMSTEC Summit this year and the ASEAN Summit in 2014. We look forward to the honour of welcoming President Thein Sein in India for the India-ASEAN 20th year Commemorative Summit later this year. Friends, This morning, I had the privilege of   from New Kerala Read more »

• PM meets Suu Kyi, invites her to India

  a three-day visit to Myanmar on Sunday. The Prime Minister is visiting Myanmar at the invitation of Myanmar President U Thein Sein. Singh was accorded a ceremonial welcome in Nay Pyi Taw and Sein hosted a Banquet in his honour. This is visit in not only Singh's   from New Kerala Read more »