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A Burmese election official displays a ballot paper during the parliamentary by-elections on April 1, 2012.

Her adoring compatriots believe democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is destined to become Burma's next president.

Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old when her father, then the de facto prime minister of what would shortly become independent Burma, was assassinated.

It was a cloudy June morning in Rangoon, but the people gathered outside the National League for Democracy headquarters were in a sunny mood to celebrate the birthday of Burma's democracy icon, Aung Sun Suu Kyi.

In 1962, Myanmar was the richest country in Asia. Following its military coup that same year, its growth and development declined rapidly.

Aung San Suu Kyi, second from left, walks up the steps to Burma's Parliament with fellow National League for Democracy MPs on Jan. 16, 2013.

Fifteen of Burma's ethnic political parties, many of which contested the 2010 elections, will form a single party in preparation for upcoming polls in 2015, according to sources from several of the allied parties.

At least 23 people, including 14 female students and the deputy commissioner of Quetta in Pakistan, were killed in multiple bomb and gun attacks by militants in the capital of insurgency-hit Balochistan province on Saturday, Dawn reports.

Asked if it was necessary to do more to protect Bengali Muslims, the ruling party leader said action would be taken against anyone who breaks laws The leader of Myanmar's ruling party has said they will likely to form a coalition government with Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy after the elections in 2015.

Naypyitaw is a city of contrasts. At its center is the parliament of Myanmar, a shining marble complex surrounded by a river-turned-moat.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen during a meeting at the headquarters of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Rangoon on April 9. After publicly announcing her desire to be Burma's next president, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been urged by supporting politicians and activists to take special ... (more)

Burmese ex-spy chief Khin Nyunt talks to reporters after voting at a polling station in Mayangone Township on April 1, 2012.

The chief of Myanmar's pro-military party said Wednesday he is not ruling out a coalition government with the opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi after crucial elections in 2015 if it's in the national interest.

A court in Myanmar has given a 26-year jail sentence to a Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in the country's northeast, a local politician who attended the trial said Wednesday.

Fifteen ethnic groups in Burma will establish an alliance ahead of the country's 2015 general elections, Radio Free Asia reported on Tuesday.

Myanmar's influential parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann has announced he will run for president in the fast-reforming nation in 2015 polls, according to a report, joining opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the only declared candidates so far.

There were few hotter topics over the past week than the dip in the equity markets across Asia, which is supposed to be keeping the wobbly world economy afloat this year.

Jailed for nearly two decades for his struggle against the junta, veteran dissident Win Tin says Myanmar's pro-democracy movement must not forget its role as the opposition, despite the country's dramatic political changes.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III returned in Manila past midnight on Saturday following his attendance to the 22nd World Economic Forum on East Asia in Myanmar.

MIN KO Naing was born in 1962 but jokes that he is 30 years old; he refuses to count toward his age the 20-plus years that Burma's military junta kept him in prison.