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NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi thronged the streets of the capital Naypyitaw on Saturday to celebrate her arrival back from The Hague, where she defended the country against genocide charges. The Nobel laureate waved as her black car drove slowly past crowds who waved flags, held up […]
– Click here for full text of her speech delivered 11 Dec 2019. – Click here for her speech 12 Dec 2019 THE HAGUE (Reuters) – At the opening of her country’s defense at the World Court on an accusation of genocide, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi challenged whether events in Rakhine could […]
State Counsellor attends 35th ASEAN Summit and related Summits in Bangkok, Thailand from 2 – 5 November 2019 Press Release. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nay Pyi Taw Dated: 5 November 2019 State Counsellor visits Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre and held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, […]
Coffee farmers sort and select ripe coffee cherries in Southern Shan State as part of a USAID project to increase access to markets, inputs and knowledge. Source: https://www.usaid.gov/burma Burma has embarked on what will be a long and challenging road of democratic and economic reform. Political reforms that started in 2011 have set in motion […]
“Without establishing a federal union based on the equality of the ethnic people, we will not see peace in our country“: State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. “Although we tried for the objectives of NCA for four years,we have not made common interpretations on the terms of NCA. Instead, implementations of NCA were […]
International Democracy Day 2019 was held at the Thabin Hall of Hluttaw Building in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday (16 September 2019) afternoon, and it was opened with speeches by President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. President U Win Myint on Sunday urged all citizens to understand that “democracy in […]
President U Win Myint and First Lady Daw Cho Cho welcomed President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in and wife Kim Jung-sook at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday afternoon. On arrival at the Presidential Palace at 3 pm, President U Win Myint and First Lady Daw Cho Cho greeted the […]
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi held a separate talk with Mr Moon Jae-in, the visiting President of Republic of Korea, at the Envoys Hall of the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw at 4 pm yesterday. They then attended a bilateral meeting of the two countries, which was held at the Meeting Hall […]
At the 2019 72nd Martyrs’ Day ceremony held yesterday at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum in Yangon, President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi laid wreaths at the monument of Bogyoke Aung San. The organizations and associations that laid wreaths and paid tributes include Myanmar War Veterans Organization, Myanmar Fire Services Department, […]
YANGON (Reuters) – UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first nominated for listing.……………………. The Myanmar proposal to list the site was approved at a meeting of the U.N.’s cultural body in Baku, Azerbaijan. The […]
