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After a landmark visit by Myanmar's leader, the United States is looking to a new phase of greater cooperation to encourage reform with the former pariah state as it runs out of major symbolic steps.

A 15-year-old Buddhist boy told a local court on Wednesday that he was tortured by police after being arrested in central Burma on suspicion of participating in a recent wave of anti-Muslim riots.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told China to deal directly with the government if they wish to resume the controversial Myitsone project.

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Members of the National League for Democracy party sit at a tea shop in Rangoon in March.

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.