Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has called on UK university leaders to help her country rebuild its higher education system which she says has been virtually “destroyed” by 50 years of military rule. (more…)

A 12-member senior-level delegation of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party left here for Kunming to pay the first ever 10-day study visit to four cities of China. (more…)

There is an old saying that love can easily turn into hate but it has been surprising to see how quickly this has happened regarding Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a review of Burma’s controversial 1982 citizenship law, which renders the Muslim Rohingya stateless, during a trip to Japan this week.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said foreign investment in the newly democratizing nation is being held up by inadequate infrastructure and uncertainty over investment laws. (more…)

Visiting Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gave an academic speech at a university in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto on Monday, advocating the beginning of change in her country based on the Buddhist idea of ” caring” for others.
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The long-deferred aspirations for a larger role in Myanmar are getting a boost this coming week with a visit by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Canadian diplomats seemed caught off-guard late last summer when Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi turned down an invitation to visit Canada.
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi broke her more than two-week long public silence on the recent inter-communal violence, telling Muslim leaders this week that she would promote “rule of law” in order to end the virulent anti-Muslim attacks that spread last month.
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Members of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya community said Thursday they have been barred from a gathering to welcome democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi when she visits Japan.
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with representatives from the country’s leading Islamic groups on Tuesday to discuss last month’s bout of rioting in central Burma.
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Lower House speaker Thura Shwe Mann discussed plans to upgrade Yangon General Hospital, Myanmar’s largest, with former United Kingdom health minister Lord Ara Darzi yesterday.
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Burma monk Saydaw Wirathu says to BBC that the “kalar” (a derogatory term for Muslims) must be plucked out of society like a bad seed, regardless that they are part of the same Myanmar ethnic fabric. Now, thousands have been killed and/or forced to flee age-old homes. In one central town of Myanmar a whole city section was burnt down. In just one incident, 20 young Muslim children were killed and dismembered, (as reported by Buddhist town residents/witnesses). In Burma’s major cities Muslim businesses are boycotted at the urging of Wirathu and associates’ orchestrated campaign. In a form of reverse “Yellow Star of David” campaign reminiscent of the Nazi pogrom against Jews, Buddhist owned businesses are marked with a form of label denied to those owned/managed by Muslims to facilitate the boycott and efforts to force out the Muslims. Myanmar government officials, police and ample military have largely stood back as the riots and killings escalated. To the contrary, there are credible reports of complicity and that the campaign is effectively sponsored by the dictatorial junta to rationalize its hold upon absolute power along ethnic labels and fears of the “other.” It does remind a bit of the start of the Holocaust and more recently the ethnic cleansing/genocide campaigns in the former Yugoslavia. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Japan from 13 to 19 April, according to a Japanese statement released late Wednesday. (more…)

In an historic first, a delegation of Myanmar’s leading opposition party, the National League for Democracy, will visit China next week – but leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not be joining them because the invitation was for delegates under 60 years old. (more…)

Myanmar’s military asserted its role in the country’s politics at a ceremony on Wednesday that featured a prominent guest, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate, whose presence among the generals would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
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In a North Korean-style display of military might on Wednesday, Burma paraded its heavy weaponry on the annual Armed Forces Day, which was attended for the first time by Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

A dramatic reconstellation of opinions occurred last week. On the same day that Burma’s President Thein Sein, a top-ranking general in the former junta, arrived in New Zealand to a 21-gun salute, Aung San Suu Kyi faced down hundreds of Burmese angry at what they claim is her role in whitewashing a crackdown on protestors at a copper mine in November that left dozens with phosphorous burns. (more…)

Something is not right.

It seems Aung San Suu Kyi is taking on what should have been the government’s job. Her work on the Latpadaung Inquiry Commission was to find facts—not to make decisions for the government, because she does not lead the government. Thein Sein does. (more…)

Myanmar’s parliament plans to review the 2008 military-drafted constitution, a move that may allow former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi to become president after elections in two years. (more…)