Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held a rare meeting with a minister of the ruling junta Saturday, a day after a court rejected her appeal against extended house arrest.
Myanmar's opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday there should be no pre-conditions for the United States starting a dialogue with the ruling junta.
A court in military-ruled Myanmar turned aside opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's latest bid for freedom, rejecting an appeal against her most recent sentence of house arrest, government sources said.
China has urged Myanmar to take better care of Chinese citizens living in a border region where clashes between an ethnic militia and Myanmar troops flared last month, the Foreign Ministry said in a rare display of displeasure with the military junta.
The party of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday it had urged the chief of the ruling junta to allow a meeting between its detained leaders so they can discuss upcoming elections.
Myanmar has asked Chinese citizens to leave a border area where fighting between government troops and rebel militias pushed tens of thousands of refugees into China last month, Chinese state media reported on Friday.
Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has written to the chief of the ruling junta with suggestions about how to get Western sanctions lifted, her lawyer said today.
A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of northwestern Myanmar early on Tuesday causing no casualties but damaging Buddhist temples believed to date to the 11th century, officials and residents said.
Myanmar's state media on Thursday defended the ruling junta's decision to bar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi from court during final arguments in her appeal against her detention.
Myanmar's ethnic minorities and their militias should give up their arms and honour past agreements to enter politics, the country's state-controlled media said.
Lawyers for detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said they have a solid legal argument for their appeal today against her recent conviction that extended her house arrest and drew global outrage.
A court in Myanmar heard final arguments on Friday in Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her conviction and house arrest, but the ruling junta has barred her from attending, her lawyers said.
A court in junta-run Myanmar will rule next month on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her extended house arrest, an official said Friday, after lawyers gave their final arguments.
A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of northwestern Myanmar early on Tuesday causing no casualties but damaging Buddhist temples believed to date to the 11th century, officials and residents said.
Myanmar's detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday appealed against her conviction on charges of sheltering an eccentric American man who swam to her lakeside house, her lawyers said.