Aung San Suu Kyi News

The United Nations has given Ms Aung San Suu Kyi a 10-year-old peace award delayed by her long house arrest.

Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her National League for Democracy party office after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Burma's Union Day on Feb.

A top EU official held out the prospect of a further easing of sanctions on Myanmar during a meeting on Monday with a senior member of the new civilian administration and announced increased aid to acknowledge reforms already begun.

When Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of Asean, sets foot on Nayphidaw on February 20 as the guest of Burmese government, it will mark a new beginning of Asean- Burma family saga which began unexpectedly on July 7, 1995.

Myanmars president pledged to seek lasting peace with armed rebels and issued a plea for the nations support yesterday, as ethnic unrest continues to mar reforms.

As the new regime embarks on reforms after years of authoritarian rule, billions of baht are ready to pour into the neighbouring country.

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

Turning away, in dismay, at the shenanigans and worse of the participants and their supporters in the political primaries and upcoming election, I turned towards Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi for a primer in democracy.

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.

SINGAPORE: More than half of the stallholders at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4 Market & Food Centre, more commonly known as "85 Fengshan Centre", will not continue their business at a temporary centre, while their current premises get a makeover.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been greeted by cheering crowds as she begins campaigning in the constituency where she is standing for parliament for the first time.

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.

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to media after meeting with Saw Htay Maung, chairman of the KNU/KNLA, at her house on Friday, Feb.

Thousands line the streets to welcome Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hits the campaign trail.

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.

Sunrise over a refugee camp in an obscure part of southwest China, housing thousands of refugees from Myanmar.

Crowds swarmed around Ms Suu Kyi's convoy as she arrived in Kawhmu for her first visit ahead of April's by-election Crowds of cheering supporters in rural Burma have turned out to welcome opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on her first campaign stop ahead of by-elections scheduled for April.

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.

Four leading members of Vahu Development Institute will participate in a couple of workshops in Naypyidaw next week and will attend several workshops in Rangoon during their two-week trip to Burma, according to Aung Naing Oo, the deputy director of VDI.