BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift homes 18 months after Cyclone Nargis tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy ...
Suu Kyi seeks cooperation with Myanmar junta after years of political deadlock Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate ...
Members of the ASEAN 10 stand for a group photo, from left to right, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, U.S. President Barack Obama, Thai Prime ...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Bringing APEC to Hawaii: summit of 'flowered shirts and grass skirts' He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo. That's one way to view President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will host ...
US President Barack Obama used a landmark encounter with the prime minister of military-run Myanmar on Sunday to demand freedom for detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. "I reaffirmed the policy that I put forward yesterday in Tokyo with regard to ...
US President Barack Obama pressed Sunday for Myanmar's military junta to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a landmark encounter with the regime's prime minister, the White House said. "He brought up the release of Aung San Suu Kyi with ...
Obama attends meeting, but does not interact, with Myanmar's repressive leader in Asia forum President Barack Obama has attended a meeting with the head of Myanmar's repressive government without directly interacting with the military leader. Obama and Gen. Thein Sein were among ...
Members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party sell portraits of their leader outside the party's headquarters during a celebration to mark the 89th anniversary of the country's National Day Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, in Yangon, ...
US President Barack Obama was to sit down with friends and foes alike Sunday at an inaugural summit with Southeast Asian leaders including the prime minister of the region's pariah state Myanmar. The landmark meeting on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific forum ...
Large flag-waving crowds greeted Myanmar's junta leader General Than Shwe on Saturday as he toured an ancient city in north-central Sri Lanka on a religious pilgrimage. The crowds, clutching flags of Myanmar and Sri Lanka, lined the streets of the sacred Buddhist ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday offered Myanmar the prospect of better ties with Washington if it pursued democratic reform and freed political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Obama will be in the same room as ...
US President Barack Obama Saturday urged Myanmar to release detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, urging the regime to take a path to "true security and prosperity." "We are now communicating directly with the leadership to make ...
