Yangon, Burma News

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Myanmars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters as she stands on the back of a vehicle near a market in Kawhmu township, the constituency where she will contest the April by-elections, yesterday Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted by cheering crowds yesterday as she hit the campaign trail in the constituency ... (more)

The main opposition leader in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, is campaigning for a seat in parliament in her constituency outside Rangoon.

Wild welcome Aung San Suu Kyi stands in her car so crowds can see her as she campaigns for the first time in Kaw Hmu, in the southern constituency she hopes to represent.

Myanmar's fledgling parliament is slaving over its first budget, a daunting task for the inexperienced body in a country where the army has long been used to dipping into state coffers at will.

Yangion, Feb 11: Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy , Saturday started the parliamentary by-election campaign in her constituency.

Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, speaks to supporters at Kaw-Hmu constituency for election campaign, in Rangoon, Burma, February 11, 2012.

Burma Media Association released a press statement on 9 February concerning about the new media law put forward by the Burmese government last week.

The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and - or at least he is hoping - The Maldives.

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to give a rapturous welcome today Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail for the first time in her bid to win a seat in the country's parliament.

AMONG the 302 political prisoners released by Burma's government was one particularly unusual case.

Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.

Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stands along side KNU General Htayt Maung ) at her residence yesterday Burmese officials have freed a leading dissident Buddhist monk after a brief detention, his monastery has said, following a call from the United States for his immediate release.

AUNG San Suu Kyi's bid for a seat in Burma's parliament has been challenged by a rival candidate.

A prominent Burmese monk who was released last month as part of a mass release of political prisoners was arrested again on Friday in Yangon, Myanmar's main city, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a group that tracks the plight of dissidents and democracy advocates in the country.

Influential Buddhist monk, Ashin Gambira, who was released from prison in a government amnesty last month, was taken from a monastery in Rangoon by police at around 2 am on Friday.

Water in Rangoon, already in short supply in some areas, is going to cost more starting April 1. The Rangoon City Development Committee announced on Thursday that water bills would increase from 25 to 40 pya per gallon for non-commercial use.

This January 19, 2012 photo shows U Gambira, leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance, after he was released from prison.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Richard Colwill recalls his days in Burma as he looks at an old picture of himself in uniform The assassination of Burmese General Aung San sparked a chain of events leading to the house arrest of his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi.