Myanmar’s president — currently in Australia — is driving a range of social, political and economic reforms in the former military dictatorship. But Rome wasn’t built in a day, writes Victoria Bruce in Myanmar.
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Pariah Myanmar comes out as relations thaw
Burmese president Thein Sein is visiting Australia as tensions thaw between the West and Myanmar. But significant questions surrounding human rights remain.
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Obama wins hearts in Myanmar, where sanctions still hurt
Burmese people have generally welcomed Barack Obama’s visit — but even the US President doesn’t get as much applause as Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar-based journalist Victoria Bruce talks to locals.
READ MORENo Brownie points in royal rebuff: who else ditched the Queen?
After 50 years, the Guides have dropped their oath of allegiance to the Queen — and Burmese democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi could replace her.
READ MOREPlea from Burma: ‘we are helpless, please save our people’
Reports of ethnic cleansing, state-sanctioned murder, mass rape and the razing of villages continue to emerge from Burma’s west, Nigel O’Connor, a freelance journalist, reports.
READ MOREBurma’s next step on the democratic road
It’s hard to think of a byelection anywhere, or even a bunch of them together, that have attracted as much interest as the Burmese polls on Sunday.
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Burma’s parliament emerges from the shadows
While international attention has focused on the main personalities negotiating historic changes in Burma, the national legislature has begun flexing its muscles, writes an Inside Story correspondent in Rangoon.
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A day of shame for the Australian Reserve Bank.
Australia has its first ever prosecution under foreign bribery legislation.
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Could someone win the Nobel prize twice?
The betting markets on who will win the Nobel Peace Prize have opened Aung San Suu Kyi as the favourite. She, after-all, won the prize back in 1991 and it would be an amazing thing to win again 20 years later. Can she win again? asks Richard Farmer.
READ MOREBurma’s First Lady of freedom
Read this intriguing indepth profile on recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, Crikey’s person of the decade. Interviewer Hannah Beech dodges government spies trailing her taxi in order to interview the famous Burmese political leader.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Crikey’s Readers’ Choice Person of the Decade
It may seem odd that the Crikey’s readers’ choice for Person of the Decade is a woman who spent the majority of the decade under house arrest, out of the public eye and banned from speaking to the media… but it’s the mark of a decade of very powerful silence.
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Happy end of 2010 … we made it. Just.
READ MOREBackground briefings cui bono?
One of the fascinating things about the media is how frequently the “facts” reported about an event differ between media outlets while, simultaneously, the supposed meaning of the events are interpreted in remarkably similar ways. Noel Turnbull looks to Burma.
READ MOREPHOTO GALLERY: The unseen family album of Aung San Suu Kyi
As Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates her 65th birthday, The Guardian shows previously unreleased photos of the leader as a young bride and mother.
READ MOREAung San Suu Ki to be freed?
A senior Burmese diplomat has announced plans for the release of Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, following her latest 6 years of house arrest. But is this just another false alarm?
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American rescued from Burma; Suu Kyi left to pay the price
John Yettaw, the American whose attempt to make contact with Aung San Suu Kyi cost the Burmese opposition leader an extra 18 months under house arrest has himself been released from imprisonment. Suu Kyi, meanwhile, remains under lock and key to pay the price for his stupidity.
READ MOREBurma back in the international spotlight
Pressures from the international community are mounting on Burma’s junta, following the increase of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home detention sentence and concerns of nuclear weapons.
READ MOREBuddhist monks are key in the battle for Burma
In light of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent re-sentencing, foreign leaders are once again speaking out against the country’s repressive military junta. But to win over the Burmese people, foreign powers must first win over the country’s Buddhist monks, says the Christian Science Monitor.
READ MOREThe solitary life of Aung San Suu Kyi
Reading and meditation, day in day out: such has been the life of imprisoned Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the last 13 years, and with yesterday’s sentencing, one to which she will return for another 18 months.
READ MOREAung San Suu Kyi back on trial
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial has resumed after UN chief Ban ki-moon’s visit and attempted intervention last week, seen now as a “failure, even a humiliation” for the leader.
READ MOREAn historic day for Myanmar – or another false dawn?
Today, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon flies into Myanmar — at the invitation of the ruling generals. There is a lot riding on the visit, says Kyaw Kyaw, a Myanmar-based blogger.
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Media banned from Aung San Suu Kyi trial again
Burma’s military junta has again barred the media from the trial of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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