Yangon: Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains in good spirits despite facing another year under house arrest while the military regime tries to secure its goal of long-term control, a source close to her party said on Tuesday.
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Bangkok: The extension of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention allows Myanmar’s military regime to press ahead with its proclaimed democracy programme without having to cope with its chief critic, analysts said Tuesday.
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Vientiane: Myanmar’s (Burma’s) Prime Minister Soe Win would not confirm during bilateral talks with Thailand on Tuesday reports that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest had been extended for one year, officials said.
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Vientiane: Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday that military-ruled Myanmar must reform before it takes over the leadership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2006.
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Vientiane: Southeast Asian leaders Tuesday wrapped up meetings in Laos where renewed embarrassment over military-ruled Myanmar threatened to overshadow the signing of a historic trade deal with China.
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Manila: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said Tuesday she has pressed Myanmar’s top military ruler about detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the need for democratic reform.
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Vientiane: Burma’s neighbours are “digging their own grave”, campaigners for democracy said yesterday, after a regional summit ignored the military dictatorship’s failure to reform.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of Burma’s democratic opposition, has spent a total of nine years, one month and seven days in detention since her National League for Democracy (NLD) won a 1990 election in a landslide
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Jakarta: Burma’s ruling military junta has placed Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s charismatic opposition leader, under an additional year of house arrest, dashing hopes for an opening to democracy any time soon, government opponents said Monday.
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