Lady of Myanmar

A source of hope for democracy and freedom in the face of adversity      

Bangkokpost, Published: 3/05/2012 at 02:33 AM ... ...

Today's top list of must-see sites in Yangon include not only famous pagodas or museums but also a visit to the headquarters of the National League of Democracy (NLD), the opposition party founded and led by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as the Lady's house.

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Burma’s Football Revolution?

By John Duerden,  May 2, 2012...

It remains to be seen how much Burma has really opened up, and whether it will continue to do so. Elections have been held, Aung San Suu Kyi is free to travel and she’s now an elected member of parliament.

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Burma News Update on International Media

1.Burma’s Football Revolution? The Diplomat 22:53 Wed, 02 May 2012

2.Lady of Myanmar Bangkok Post 02:47

3.Japan firms to help create Myanmar bourse The Japan Times 06:56

4.Myanmar Raises Doubts on Italian-Thai’s $8.6 Billion Port Plans Bloomberg 11:47

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Burma News Update on Myanmar Media

- NLD ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ေရာက္ၿပီ click
- NLD လႊတ္ေတာ္တက္မႈ အေမရိကန္ ႀကိဳဆို click
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ အေမရိကန္ ႀကိဳဆုိ click

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UN chief Ban hails Suu Kyi's Myanmar compromise

Published: 1/05/2012 at 04:26 PM .. 

 

RANGOON - UN chief Ban Ki-moon praised Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday for backing down over a boycott of parliament which had threatened to stall the fragile reform process.

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NGO to deliver aid to Kachin state

By NAY THWIN,  

Published: 1 May 2012...

A woman peers from a window of a shelter at a camp for people displaced by fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Armyoutside the city of Myitkyina in northern Burma on 22 February 2012. (Reuters)

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Qatar Airways to resume Myanmar flights in October

By Pratap John, Chief Business Reporter...

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar al-Baker, left, addresses a press conference at Arabian Travel Mart in Dubai on the airline’s expansion plans. With him is Qatar Airways’ Country Manager UAE Marwan Haber

After a four-year absence from the route, Qatar Airways will resume operations to Myanmar in October.

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Minister apologises for calling MPs ‘uneducated’

By MIN LWIN, Published: 1 May 2012...

Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Myint Hlaing observes Peasants Day during the opening of Nganmoeyeik Sluice Gate in Dagon Myothit Township on 2 March 2012. (Photo taken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation)

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Suu Kyi to address UN assembly

Zoe Daniel, South-East Asia correspondent  

Last Updated: 19 hours 13 minutes ago   ...

Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has accepted an invitation from United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki Moon to speak to the UN General Assembly in New York.

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Burma News Update on International Media

1.Suu Kyi to address UN assembly Radio Australia 16:38 Tue, 01 May 2012

2.Minister apologises for calling MPs ‘uneducated’ Democratic Voice of Burma 17:54 Tue, 01 May 2012

3.Qatar Airways announces launch dates of new routes Mena Report 18:35 Tue, 01 May 2012

4.Qatar Airways to resume Myanmar flights in October Gulf Times 05:14

5.Ashton says Myanmar has "more to do" Reuters.co.uk 00:23

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Burma News Update on Myanmar Media

- အႀကီးဆုံး တ႐ုတ္နယ္စပ္ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးဂိတ္အား KIA သိမ္း click
- ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ကခ်င္စစ္ဆင္ေရးတြင္ ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ အသုံးျပဳလာ click
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ NLD က်မ္းက်ိန္ လႊတ္ေတာ္တက္ဖုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ click
- ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာ မျဖစ္လို၍ က်မ္းက်ိန္စာသားကို NLD လိုက္ေလ်ာ က်ိန္ဆိုမည္ click

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Foreign minister in knotty mission in Myanmar

By Chung Min-uck, 04-30-2012 22:26 ...
Kim Sung-hwan

South Korea’s top diplomat will hold talks with the foreign minister of Myanmar this week as the resource-rich Southeast Asian country draws a flurry of high-profile visits from European countries and the United States.

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon holds talks with Suu Kyi

Posted: 01 May 2012 1216 hrs  ...


YANGON: UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday for talks about the country's political future after a surprise climbdown by the Nobel laureate in her boycott of parliament.

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Myanmar’s Opium Growers Struggle to Get by With Potatoes

By Flavia Krause-Jackson - May 1, 2012 4:22 AM GMT+0700  ...

Ukan Nang Ati, 48, used to scrape a living growing opium in the isolated countryside behind the village of Kyauk Ka Chan in Myanmar’s mountainous north. Then soldiers swept through Shan State and razed swathes of poppy fields to the ground.

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Burma News Update on International Media

1.Foreign minister in knotty mission in Myanmar The Korea Times 08:50

2.Relief as Myanmar opposition ends boycott Reuters 22:59 Mon, 30 Apr 2012

3.For Investors, a Narrow Road Into Myanmar Barron's Online 01:13 

4.Burma to Relax Visa Rules The Irrawaddy 17:34 Mon, 30 Apr 2012

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