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Suu Kyi Controversy Over 'Interviewed By A Muslim' Remark
A BBC interview appears to have commissioned a major scandal for Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. After the interview, which reportedly included tough questions from presenter Mishal Husain, Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, snapped, "No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim" according to the Daily Mail.
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Myanmar's Opposition Party Clinches Landslide Election Victory
During the 27 years that Nyan Win fought for democracy beside Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the low point came when he was arrested by the ruling military junta and locked in a bare army barracks for three years. The fight was not easy, he says, but his leader never seemed to be discouraged.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's Party Wins Historic Majority in Myanmar Polls
Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition on Friday won a parliamentary majority from weekend polls that will allow it to elect a president and form a government in a historic shift in power from the army.
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US to begin targeted easing of Myanmar sanctions, says Hillary Clinton
The United States is prepared to take targeted steps to ease sanctions banning the export of U.S. financial services and investment in Myanmar to respond to progress in the Southeast Asian country's democratic transition, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
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Too early to say if democracy in Burma is irreversible: Suu Kyi to NDTV
Myanmar's charismatic leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi, who claimed her party's landslide victory in the country's historic elections, hopes that democracy will win.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
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Suu Kyi Controversy Over 'Interviewed By A Muslim' Remark
A BBC interview appears to have commissioned a major scandal for Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. After the interview, which reportedly included tough questions from presenter Mishal Husain, Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, snapped, "No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim" according to the Daily Mail.
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Myanmar's Opposition Party Clinches Landslide Election Victory
During the 27 years that Nyan Win fought for democracy beside Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the low point came when he was arrested by the ruling military junta and locked in a bare army barracks for three years. The fight was not easy, he says, but his leader never seemed to be discouraged.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's Party Wins Historic Majority in Myanmar Polls
Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition on Friday won a parliamentary majority from weekend polls that will allow it to elect a president and form a government in a historic shift in power from the army.
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US to begin targeted easing of Myanmar sanctions, says Hillary Clinton
The United States is prepared to take targeted steps to ease sanctions banning the export of U.S. financial services and investment in Myanmar to respond to progress in the Southeast Asian country's democratic transition, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
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Too early to say if democracy in Burma is irreversible: Suu Kyi to NDTV
Myanmar's charismatic leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi, who claimed her party's landslide victory in the country's historic elections, hopes that democracy will win.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
