National League for Democracy News

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.

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.

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.

Myanmar's opposition cried foul Wednesday after the authorities revoked a prison amnesty granted to one of its members last year as part of widely praised political reforms.

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This was one of the questions put to me by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi when I had the privilege of meeting her early 2011 during a visit by the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats and during another discussion that year with the National League for Democracy's Women's Wing.

Peter is a foreign correspondent and feature writer with The Independent who has done long stretches in Japan, India and Italy.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

The Secretary of State has determined that Presidential Proclamation 6925, also known as the 1996 Visa Ban, which suspended entry into the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants of "persons who formulate, implement, or benefit from policies that impede Burma's transition to democracy, and the immediate family members of such persons," is no ... (more)

The VII Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies took place in Mongolia's capital Ulan-Bator on 27-29 April.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly plans to visit Myanmar in late May. The last time a Japanese prime minister visited the county was in 1977 when Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda visited then Burma.

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, April 29 -- The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Chairperson and General Secretary of National League for Democracy of Myanmar, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived here on Sunday to participate in the 7th Ministerial Conference of Community of Democracies .

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, second from left, walks up the steps to Burma's Parliament with fellow National League for Democracy lawmakers in January.

The town of Meiktila in central Myanmar presents a tranquil scene on a hot April day: a woman presses juice from sugar cane while customers loll around in the midday heat.

According to Burma's government, the Rohingya do not exist. Denied citizenship by an internationally criticized 1982 law, the stateless "Bengali immigrants" have in the past faced pogroms, persecution from the Burmese government and more recently from other Burmese.

This file picture taken on March 10, 2013 shows Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to the media at a press conference during the National League for Democracy's first ever party conference at the Royal Rose Hall in Yangon.

Last month, as the anti-Muslim violence in Burma - also known as Myanmar - spread from Rakhine state in western Burma to the central Burmese city of Meiktila, Aung San Suu Kyi sat among the generals on the reviewing stand as the Burmese army marched past on Armed Forces Day.

Some of Burma's smaller political parties want to change the country's current first-past-the-post voting system ahead of national elections scheduled for 2015.

Aung San Suu Kyi's refusal to condemn attacks on Muslims in Myanmar has dimmed the Nobel laureate's lustre among global rights campaigners, but observers say her reticence will do her no harm with voters.