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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday pledge up to 117 billion yen ($1.03 billion) of development aid to Myanmar in a meeting in Manila with government leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The package of low-interest loans will be used to fund projects including infrastructure and small company financing meant to help […]
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 11) — World leaders, including democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, have begun to arrive in the Philippines for the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and related meetings.
Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Da Nang, Vietnam to attend the Asean-Apec leaders’ informal dialogue. (Photo-AFP) State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on November 9 in Da Nang, Vietnam at the invitation of Tran Dai Quang, president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to attend the Asean- Apec leaders’ “informal dialogue”, the state […]
The State Counselor’s Office director-general U Zaw Htay told The Irrawaddy the leader is on a one-day visit to the area, adding that more details of the trip would be published soon. The State Counselor arrived in Sittwe around 8 a.m., and met with about 12 young people at the airport.She was accompanied by businesspeople Zaw […]
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met the President of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Xi Jinping in Dongdating Hall, Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday afternoon after spending time with the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Li Keqiang.
On Saturday, April 29, the 10 member countries signed a declaration that hopes to increase accountability and transparency in civil service to help ASEAN achieve its goals. It was the first declaration signed by the bloc at the 30th summit, and the first under the chairmanship of the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte.
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to youths from rural areas of Myanmar yesterday, stressing their importance in the path toward peace and calling them the “backbone of the country”, noting that those in rural areas make up 70 per cent of the nation’s population. The talk with the youths took place yesterday […]
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China and Myanmar on Monday agreed to uphold the principle of mutual respect and win-win cooperation to promote the sustained, healthy and steady development of bilateral relations.
Economic cooperation and border management will be high on the Myanmar president’s agenda as he makes his first visit to China amid an economic slowdown at home and increased fighting with armed ethnic groups, Chinese analysts said. Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw left Naypyitw for Beijing on Thursday for a six-day visit to China. The […]
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed thanks to the people for their understanding of the incumbent government, pledging that the one-year-old administration would continue to march on the road to establishing a federal union with eternal peace and introducing a new motto: “Together with the people”.
