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Myanmar security forces arrest key protest leader

Apr 16, 2021 - 9:29 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Yangon (TIP): Myanmar security forces arrested on Thursday one of the main leaders of the campaign against military rule after ramming him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally, friends and colleagues said. Opponents […]

Myanmar faces growing isolation as military tightens grip

Mar 19, 2021 - 10:58 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Myanmar (TIP): Myanmar faced growing isolation on Thursday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built its case against ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Nobel […]

Suu Kyi’s party expected to win second term in Myanmar polls

Nov 7, 2020 - 4:33 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Bangkok (TIP): Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgeling democracy they helped install just five years ago. There are about 37 million registered voters, though turnout is expected […]

Myanmar insists no North Korea links as US envoy visits

Jul 28, 2017 - 10:27 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar has no military ties with North Korea, a Myanmar official said on Monday, as a US diplomat responsible for North Korea arrived for talks in which he is likely to seek assurances on efforts to […]

Myanmar insists no North Korea links as US envoy visits

Jul 21, 2017 - 11:38 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar has no military ties with North Korea, a Myanmar official said on July 17, as a US diplomat responsible for North Korea arrived for talks in which he is likely to seek assurances on efforts […]

Nikki Haley says cannot overlook what is happening in Myanmar

Jul 14, 2017 - 6:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Myanmar should let the UN fact-finding mission probe the alleged human rights violations by the country’s military and security forces, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said, underlining that the international community cannot overlook the situation there. […]

‘I want Apple’: Myanmar abuzz over end of US sanctions

Sep 17, 2016 - 7:30 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar cheered a US promise to end sanctions on Sept 16, with residents in its commercial capital clamouring for American brands while politicians and business moguls heralded a new era of transparency and […]

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US President Obama in Washington (Photo courtesy White House)

US lifts Myanmar trade sanctions

Sep 16, 2016 - 6:28 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama announced that US economic sanctions against Myanmar will be lifted, and trade preferences reinstated to provide duty-free treatment for goods from the Asian nation. The September 14 meeting in Washington […]

Obama said sanctions would be lifted during talks with Aung San Suu Kyi at the Oval Office [Carlos Barria/Reuters]

US lifts Myanmar trade sanctions

Sep 15, 2016 - 8:50 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

President Barack Obama announced that US economic sanctions against Myanmar will be lifted, and trade preferences reinstated to provide duty-free treatment for goods from the Asian nation. Yesterday’s (09/14/2016) meeting in Washington was the first by Aung San […]

Aung San Suu Kyi to lead committee for Rohingyas

Jun 5, 2016 - 10:25 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NAY PYI TAW (TIP): Nobel laureate and Myanmar .s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will chair a new committee dedicated to promoting peace and development in Rakhine state, where the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority […]

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets new role as special adviser

Apr 8, 2016 - 2:25 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar‘s president signed a bill giving Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military. Suu […]

Htin Kyaw sworn in as Myanmar’s president

Apr 1, 2016 - 11:28 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NAYPYITAW (TIP): Htin Kyaw, a confidante of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was sworn in Wednesday as Myanmar‘s president, ushering in the first democratically elected government into office after decades of military rule. The […]

Myanmar president to include Aung San Suu Kyi in his Cabinet

Mar 25, 2016 - 4:27 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

NAYPYITAW (TIP): Myanmar‘s president-elect on March 22 proposed an 18-member cabinet that will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who for decades had campaigned for a democratically elected government to replace […]

Myanmar’s ex-dictator tips Suu Kyi as ‘future leader’

Dec 18, 2015 - 2:22 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar‘s feared former junta leader Than Shwe has endorsed his one-time nemesis Aung San Suu Kyi as a “future leader” of the country, according to his grandson. Than Shwe, a postal clerk turned […]

Its back to School In Myanmar, Suu Kyi sends new members to parliament school

Dec 17, 2015 - 5:25 pm EST Agencies | Media Reports 0

Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar’s parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said today. […]

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi blames lack of safety regulations for deadly landslide

Nov 28, 2015 - 3:22 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

YAGON/HPAKANT(MYANMAR) (TIP): : A disregard for the rule of law in the jade mining industry in Myanmar had made accidents such as the landslide that killed more than 100 people at the weekend a common occurrence, […]

Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya see glimmer of hope in Suu Kyi victory

Nov 15, 2015 - 10:35 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

SITTWE, MYANMAR (TIP): Noor Bagum would have liked to have voted for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) but, like the majority of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, she took no part […]

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi says rebel groups shouldn’t rush peace deal

Sep 18, 2015 - 8:48 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

HOPONE, Myanmar: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the weekend appealed to ethnic rebel groups in nationwide ceasefire talks with the government not to rush the deal, but work slowly on an agreement […]

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi begins election bid with first rally

Sep 11, 2015 - 10:31 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

LOIKAW (Myanmar) (TIP): Thousands thronged to see Aung San Suu Kyi’s first rally on Sept 10 as the Myanmar opposition leader launched her bid for historic November elections by touring a remote eastern region seen […]

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Millions back Aung San Suu Kyi’s call for Myanmar charter change

Jul 25, 2014 - 6:47 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

YANGON (TIP): Myanmar‘s opposition has gathered millions of signatures in support of changes to a constitution that bars its leader Aung San SuuKyi from becoming president, in a show of political strength ahead of elections […]

Myanmar security forces arrest key protest leader

Mar 7, 2014 - 5:13 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Yangon (TIP): Myanmar security forces arrested on Thursday one of the main leaders of the campaign against military rule after ramming him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally, friends and colleagues […]

DJ Dave Lee Travis ‘assaulted girls on air’, court hears

Jan 17, 2014 - 7:23 am EST @theindpanorama 0

LONDON (TIP): Veteran British presenter Dave Lee Travis sexually assaulted young women while live on television and in his radio studio, prosecutors told his trial on January 14. The 68-year-old former BBC star, one of […]

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi collects 1990 prize at last

Oct 25, 2013 - 6:28 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

STRASBOURG (France): Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar‘s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, has finally collected the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov prize for human rights. In October 21 stirring ceremony, European Parliament President […]

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Aung San Suu Kyi says Myanmar unrest an ‘international tragedy’

Nov 16, 2012 - 7:10 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI: Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal migration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Suu Kyi, on […]

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