A delegation of senior US officials held talks Wednesday with Burma's military junta leader as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured), who was allowed a rare break from detention.
Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with Western diplomats in Yangon, following a letter that she sent to the secretive military junta proposing ways to get sanctions lifted.
A Burmese court has rejected opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against her extended house arrest following her August conviction over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her house uninvited.
Freed in September 2008 after 19 years in the prisons of the Burmese junta, U Win Tin, aged 80, is a veteran of the struggle for democracy and above all a political mentor to d'Aung San Suu Kyi. Interview.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (pictured) says the US hopes to engage directly with Burma’s ruling military junta in an effort to encourage the country to adopt democratic reforms, but insists that current sanctions will continue.
Myanmar's ruling military junta on Friday freed two journalists who helped victims of 2008's Cyclone Nargis reach a UN aid office, and released several opposition activists as part of an amnesty granted to more than 7,000 prisoners.
Two reports by EarthRights International, a US-based rights advocacy group, allege that energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Burma's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash billions of dollars.
Lawyers for detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi launched an appeal Thursday against her conviction on charges of sheltering a US man who swam to her lakeside house.
