Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is launching a major push to end decades of fighting between rebels and the military, with many of the country's myriad armed groups gathering for a peace conference in the capital Naypyitaw.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference Wednesday (Aug 31) aimed at ending wars that have blighted the country since its independence.
Achieving peace and unity among different peoples in her country is the most important aim, Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said in Beijing.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Beijing on Wednesday night to kick off her first China visit as her country's No 2 political figure.
Unlike Western media's narrative of Aung San Suu Kyi as Myanmar's democracy icon, Chinese people and observers are inclined to regard her as a pragmatic politician seeking cooperation with China for her people's good.
Myanmar's first State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, who starts an official visit to China on Wednesday, is welcome to play a greater role in boosting her country's strategic partnership with China.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is heading to China on Wednesday (Aug 17) for what is likely to be her government's biggest diplomatic test, with the fate of a suspended dam project, backed by China but opposed by many people in Myanmar, in the balance.
Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's upcoming visit to China will further promote Myanmar- China relations, the National League for Democracy (NLD) has said.
At the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang, Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will start a five-day visit to China on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
For nearly 30 years, Aung San Suu Kyi starred as arguably the world’s most prominent and revered political prisoner, a courageous champion of human rights and democracy in her military-ruled nation.
An official in Myanmar has been charged with defamation for referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with a slur parroted by the former junta she spent decades campaigning against, police said Tuesday.
In a demonstration of her popular appeal, Myanmar de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a rapturous welcome on Thursday as she presided over a town hall-type meeting with some of the huge population of migrant workers from her homeland who eke out a living in Thailand.
Myanmar State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon Thursday on a three-day official visit to Thailand at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, sources with the Foreign Ministry said.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights on Monday that the government will avoid using the term “Rohingya” to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, an official said on Monday.
Members of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) across the regions and the states in Myanmar including Yangon and Mandalay on Sunday celebrated State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's 71th birthday by donating blood and planting trees.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given "enough space" to address the plight of her country's Rohingya Muslim population, as visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed the Nobel peace laureate to promote respect for human rights.
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