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Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to Burmese living in Japan and her supporters during a meeting in Tokyo, Saturday, April 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) / AP

Analysis: Will the New Year bring a new Constitution?

By Zin Linn Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:05PM UTC 0 Comment

Today, 17 April, is New Year’s Day in Burma. Burmese New Year, also known as the Thingyan festival, is an is a happy event where people splash water on each other as a symbol of washing away the bad luck of the previous year. President Thein Sein spoke in a radio address broadcast to mark...

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Suu Kyi selected to remain Burma opposition head

By AP News Sun, Mar 10, 2013 9:05PM UTC 0 Comment

Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during the second day session of first ever congress of her National League for Democracy party at Royal Rose restaurant in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday. Pic: AP.

YANGON, Burma (AP) — Aung San Suu Kyi was selected Sunday to continue as head of Burma’s main opposition party, keeping her leadership post even as the party undergoes a makeover to adjust to the country’s new democratic framework. The Nobel laureate was named chairwoman of the National League for Democracy’s new executive board on...

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Burma opposition holds first party congress

By AP News Fri, Mar 08, 2013 6:34PM UTC 0 Comment

A member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) arranges chairs as he prepares for the party congress in Yangon, Thursday. Pic: AP.

YANGON, Burma (AP) — Nearly 900 representatives from Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party gathered Friday in Burma’s main city to elect their leadership for the first time in the group’s 25-year history. It is a sign of how far Burma has come with political reforms that the gathering, which runs through Sunday in Yangon,...

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Burma opposition party to hold party congress

By AP News Sun, Mar 03, 2013 8:58PM UTC 0 Comment

YANGON, Burma/Myanmar (AP) — In another sign of political reform and reconciliation in Burma/Myanmar, the country’s biggest party led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hold its first-ever congress in the country’s former capital next week. “This will be the NLD’s first party congress since the party was formed more than 24 years...

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Burma’s corruption committee: Real change or another false dawn?

By Zin Linn Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:52PM UTC 2 Comments

President U Thein Sein delivers an address at second day session of third Planning Commission Meeting on 27 December 2012 at Government Meeting Hall in Nay-Pyi-Taw. (Photo:http://www.president-office.gov.mm/en/)

The Office of the President of Burma (Myanmar) announced Wednesday the formation of a nine-member anti-corruption committee under the chairmanship of Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham. “As part of efforts for the emergence of good governance and clean government after the new government took office, an action committee against corruption is formed to fight...

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