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RANGOON, Burma - Maroon robes for Buddhist monks had long drawn customers to the shop in downtown Rangoon.

KFC and a host of other American icons are finally coming to Burma as the army-ruled nation known officially as Myanmar ends five decades of isolation.

Historic visit: Myanmar's President Thein Sein shakes hands with cabinet ministers as he leaves for a state visit to the US - the first in 47 years.

Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections.

Democracy activist, parliament member and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi would be greeted later as a hero by thousands of people gathered to see and hear her at Memorial Coliseum.

In a 2011 file photo, birds fly as a porter pushes his cart at Yangon's river port.

RANGOON, Burma - Thomas Tun, a retired government official, takes a daily stroll down his Rangoon street to buy up to five newspapers from a sidewalk vendor.

President Obama will welcome His Excellency President Thein Sein to the White House on Monday, May 20, 2013.

Though tension and mistrust have long existed amidst the myriad of ethnic and religious groups that comprise Myanmar's society, they erupted with uncommon severity during the violence of last year.

Technicians check the North Korean satellite launch vehicle Unha-3 on the launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Center on April 8. The usually secretive North Korea organised an unprecedented visit for foreign reporters to Tongchang-ri space centre on April 8. During the train journey from Pyongyang to the North Pyongan Province, a journalist ... (more)

Myanmar state television announced Monday that reformist President Thein Sein will make a state visit to the United States in the near future, the first by a Myanmar head of state in almost 47 years and a sign of warming ties.

Myanmar's next national elections - more than two years away - are already preoccupying the country's leaders and the opposition.

Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, has been appointed to take over from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Chair of The Elders with immediate effect.

From the outside, the dilapidated building that houses Pansodan Art Gallery in downtown Rangoon seems nondescript: a concrete staircase rises steeply, the walls faded and stained with watermarks.

Cambodia's opposition leader is calling on the United States to impose sanctions against strongman Hun Sen if upcoming elections are unfair, saying that Myanmar showed how foreign pressure can work.

In 1936, student leader Aung San, who later became the architect of Burma's independence, edited an feature article entitled "A hell-hound at large", as the chief editor of Ohway magazine.

Elections, so their campaigns promise, are about ''change'', ''progress'' and ''reform''. But in a slew of polls coming up across South Asia, the promises of change are being made by some strikingly familiar names.

Aung San Suu Kyi announced Burma will amend its constitution to change the role of the military in politics, strengthen federalism and reform the judiciary, in Rangoon on Friday.

Amendments to Myanmar's military-drafted 2008 constitution are likely to be pushed through before the 2015 general election, democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday.

Controlled by a military junta, the nation of Burma, or Myanmar, has long been isolated as an international pariah state.