Some sanctions against Myanmar were waived by the United States on Monday, allowing the Myanmar government to work with the World Bank and other international financial organizations to bolster its economy. The decision is the latest in a series of cautious reciprocal steps intended to reward sweeping political and economic changes in the country,...
WASHINGTON -- The United States moved to restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, rewarding the sweeping political and economic changes that the country's new civilian government has made, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and, only hours before, the release of hundreds of political prisoners. Freeing the prisoners, which...
BANGKOK -- Myanmar's opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, confirmed on Tuesday that she would run for a seat in the country's new Parliament in a by-election scheduled for April in which her party, the National League for Democracy, will enter the new political structure for the first time. A party spokesman told reporters that Ms. Aung San Suu...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (født 19. juni 1945 i Rangoon, Burma) er en politiker fra Myanmar, der er kendt for sine ikke-voldelige, prodemokratiske aktiviteter i landet. Hun modtog i 1991 Nobels fredspris. Efter at have siddet i husarrest i 15 af den seneste 21 år, blev Aung San Suu Kyi den 13. november 2010 løsladt af det myanmarske diktaturregime.Aung San Suu Kyi er løsladt - Politiken.dk
Hun er datter af general Aung San, som forhandlede Burmas uafhængighed fra Storbritannien i 1947 og som blev myrdet af rivaler samme år.
Hun studerede ved universitetet i Oxford, hvor hun mødte sin mand, som hun har 2 børn med.