Amelie Bottollier-DepoisAung San Suu Kyi's refusal to condemn attacks on Muslims in Myanmar has dimmed the Nobel laureate's lustre among global rights campaigners, but observers say her reticence will do her no harm with voters.Nearly a month after religious riots killed 43 people in central ...

TOKYO - Myanmar's Suu Kyi arrived in Japan, her first visit to the country where she spent time as a university researcher nearly three decades ago. A group of well-wishers including Burmese gathered at Narita airport to greet her, but were denied the chance to meet her. During her 6-day trip, the ...

TOKYO - Members of Myanmar's Muslim minority Rohingya community said Thursday they have been barred from a gathering to welcome democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi when she visits Japan. Suu Kyi is expected from Saturday in her first visit to the country for nearly three decades, after time spent as a ...

LONDON - Myanmar’s opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi remains “fond” of her country’s army despite claims that it has recruited child soldiers and used rape as a weapon, she said in an interview broadcast Sunday. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was herself held under house ...

YANGON - Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday said she would not step in to help end worsening conflict between the army and ethnic Kachin rebels without government approval. "It is up to the government. This case is being handled by the government at the moment," Suu Kyi ...

 GENEVA - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been appointed an ambassador of the UN’s programme on HIV and AIDS and has been tasked with fighting discrimination against people living with the disease, the agency said Tuesday. “It is a great honour to be chosen as a ...

TARIQ A AL MAEENAAung San Suu Kyi arrived in India to a welcome worthy of a head of state. The Nobel Prize winner from Myanmar was welcomed by the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and praised for her “indomitable courage” for her struggles against the ruling military junta of ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal immigration from Bangladesh had to be stopped.Suu Kyi, on a visit to neighbouring India, said she had declined to speak out ...

NEW DELHI  - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday urged the people of India to help her country secure democracy as she paid her first visit for 25 years. "We have not yet achieved the goal of democracy," Suu Kyi, who was released from military house arrest in 2010, ...

NEW DELHI  - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged India not to be over-optimistic about political changes in her homeland, as she began her first visit to New Delhi for a quarter of a century on Tuesday. Suu Kyi, who was a student in the city where her mother served as an ...

YANGON (AFP) - Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the government to send more troops to western Myanmar to restore peace to a region convulsed by communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims.The Nobel laureate, who has been criticised for failing specifically to condemn the treatment ...

LONODON – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged tolerance in response to a wave of ethnic violence in the west of the country, but has refused to take sides.In recent months, violence between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhists in Rakhine state has forced 100,000 from their ...

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar leader Thein Sein has said in an interview he would accept democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi as president if elected, but added he could not alone amend rules that bar her from power. Former general Thein Sein has paid rare tributes to Myanmar’s Nobel laureate during ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Washington rolled out a red-carpet welcome on Wednesday for Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who was to hold talks with President Barack Obama and finally receive Congress’s highest honour. Obama will meet his fellow Nobel peace laureate for the first time in a ...

WASHINGTON - Opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi sought Tuesday to reassure China that Myanmar’s warming relations with the United States were not at its expense and signaled she was open to an end to US sanctions. In her first substantive comments on a landmark trip to the United States, the ...

YANGON - Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi left Myanmar Sunday for a landmark trip to the United States, set to see her feted by the US president and quizzed on the progress of reforms. The Nobel laureate, who was elected to parliament this year, flew out of Yangon accompanied by new US ...

OXFORD  - Hardened by decades of political struggle, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi confronted emotional scars of a different kind on Wednesday when she received an honorary degree from Britain’s Oxford University where she once studied and fell in love.Having spent most of the last ...

LONDON (AFP) Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is set to make the next stop on her European tour on Monday in Dublin where she will receive a rock star’s welcome from Irish singer and global rights campaigner Bono. The democracy icon has already visited Switzerland and Norway - where on ...

OSLO - Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday pledged to keep up her struggle for democracy as she finally delivered her Nobel Peace Prize speech, 21 years after winning the award while under house arrest. After a year that has seen sweeping changes in her Southeast Asian homeland, Suu Kyi ...

MAHACHAI, Thailand - Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday told an ecstatic crowd of Myanmar migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them, as she kicked off her first trip abroad in 24 years."I can give you one promise - I will try my best for you," Suu Kyi told a crowd of ...

LONDON  - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Britain's prestigious Oxford University, her alma mater announced Thursday. The democracy icon will receive a doctorate in civil law on June 20, a day after her 67th birthday, during her first trip ...

WASHINGTON - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday counselled US caution in freezing sanctions, warning that her country could slide back after a year of dramatic reforms. Suu Kyi, who was sworn in May 2 as a member of parliament after spending most of the past two decades ...

SHASTRI RAMACHANDARANIn any contest, the obvious winner is rarely ever the only winner. This is often lost sight of in the moment of euphoria. The overwhelming victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 45 by-elections to Myanmar’s Parliament has other ...

YANGON - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday said she will swear a controversial oath in parliament, ending a political impasse that saw her delay her debut in the legislature. In a dramatic climb-down, the Nobel laureate told reporters at her National League for Democracy (NLD) ...

YANGON - Aung San Suu Kyi’s party announced Sunday it will postpone its parliamentary debut, in the first sign of discord between Myanmar’s newly-elected opposition and reformist government.The democracy icon and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) will not travel ...

YANGON  - Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party won almost all the seats it contested in Myanmar elections, becoming the main opposition force in the national parliament, official results showed Tuesday.The veteran dissident's National League for Democracy stormed to victory in 43 of the ...

YANGON - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday hailed a “new era” for Myanmar and called for political unity after her party swept to victory in elections seen as a test of budding reforms.The Nobel peace laureate won her first seat in parliament, state media confirmed, saying ...

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament on Sunday, her party said, after a historic by-election that is testing Myanmar's nascent reform credentials and could convince the West to end sanctions. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) party announced to loud cheers at its ...

SAGAING, Myanmar - Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi insisted she was feeling better on Sunday as she pressed on with her election campaign despite falling ill during a huge rally a day earlier. A tired-looking Suu Kyi was hailed by crowds of well-wishers shouting “May Daw ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar - Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill on Saturday as she addressed the largest crowd of her election campaign so far in the second biggest city of Mandalay.More than 100,000 people gathered to cheer on the tired-looking Nobel Peace Prize laureate as she ...