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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been ranked the 31st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel retains her ranking as the most powerful.

National League for Democracy members in Shan State's Taunggyi District were forced to resign from the party at gunpoint on Sunday over a dispute about land allegedly confiscated from local farmers by an ethnic militia group, DVB reports.

Anyone who wants to credit Burma's President Thein Sein for the country's political and economic reforms must first thank former dictator Sr-Gen Than Shwe.

The meeting of President Barack Obama and President Thein Sein of Myanmar at the White House Monday has reignited some of the controversy over the pace of improvement of U.S. relations with that troubled nation.

Burma's ethnic leaders have accused the United States of providing inadequate support for the Southeast Asian country's peace process and are urging US President Barack Obama to stress the issue during his meeting with Burmese counterpart Thein Sein on Monday at the White House.

President Barack Obama will meet Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday, the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years, amid apprehensions about the sustainability of the nation's internal reforms marred by sectarian violence.

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.