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There are few national anniversaries in Burma more significant than the one it commemorated on Sunday.

Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her National League for Democracy party office after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Burma's Union Day on Feb.

An EU official arrived in Myanmar's capital Monday for talks with a civilian government praised by Brussels for the reforms it has begun over the past year after five decades of authoritarian military rule.

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles to supporters as she leaves the National League for Democracy head office after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th Myanmar Union Day in Yangon February 12, 2012.

It began the article with the phrase that perfectly describes how most Thais are feeling towards political developments in the country.

Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, speaks to supporters at Kaw-Hmu constituency for election campaign, in Rangoon, Burma, February 11, 2012.

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to give a rapturous welcome today Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail for the first time in her bid to win a seat in the country's parliament.

A rock star welcome for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hits the campaign trail in Myanmar.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been greeted by cheering crowds as she begins campaigning in the constituency where she is standing for parliament for the first time.

Crowds swarmed around Ms Suu Kyi's convoy as she arrived in Kawhmu for her first visit ahead of April's by-election Crowds of cheering supporters in rural Burma have turned out to welcome opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on her first campaign stop ahead of by-elections scheduled for April.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , which is already assisting with a number of initiatives in Myanmar, voiced its readiness to work even more closely with the South-East Asian nation as it moves forward with planned reforms.

The National Unity Party and the National League for Democracy . It expects a hard fought election.

Aung San Suu Kyi's bid for a seat in Myanmar's Parliament has been challenged by a rival candidate.

As her party prepares to go to the polls for the first time in more than two decades, National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is urging youth members to put the party's electoral success ahead of their personal ambitions.

There is always a moment when a society which has been ruled by authoritian leaders makes its initial step towards greater democracy.

ANOTHER day, another milestone: there appears to be no let-up in the frenetic pace of Myanmar's political transformation.

Seeing the real Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar these days may be even easier than spotting the film version.

Aung San Suu Kyi says she will campaign for the first time in the Kawmhu constituency on the outskirts of Rangoon on Saturday, before launching campaign trips to all state and regional capitals before the April 1 by-election. Burma's opposition leader told reporters last week that she chose Kwamhu because of its large Kayin population.

At the State Department today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Burmese comedian and recently-released former political prisoner Zaganar, National League for Democracy women's empowerment activist Khin Than Myint, and National Democratic Front Kachin ethnic minority rights activist Daw Bauk Gyar.

Lately, there are endless reports of people going to Burma, so much so that as the saying goes - chaung pauk tawme , or a river will soon run through the worn footpath.A It was therefore refreshing to note that the usually soft-spoken Dr Sein Win, elected Prime Minister of the US-based National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, gave an ... (more)