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...The crackdown prompted the UN to call for a genocide investigation, and brought international condemnation of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, which promised last year to allow some Rohingya to return home...
...“We are planning to promote our authentic and iconic food,” says Nay Linn, chairman, who adds that further similar visits are planned for Thailand and Singapore....
...The meeting in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, involving 17 groups, is being opened by Aung San Suu Kyi and attended by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon....
...— INSIGHT: Travel portal part of new wave Nay Aung returned to his native Myanmar from the US three years ago and founded online travel agency Oway....
...Many of those points are echoed by other entrepreneurs including Nay Aung, who runs his Oway online travel agency from Yangon’s smart Junction Square shopping mall district....
...Neither IGE nor UNOG responded to requests for details on their ownership or to questions about Pyi Aung and Nay Aung. The brothers could not be reached for comment....
...“Essentially, such reforms are further recognition by the state of the private sector as an engine of growth,” said U Win Aung, head of Myanmar’s main business group, UMFCCI, and an influential supporter...
...For Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, who journeyed to the Monywa site on a pre-arranged visit on Thursday, the incident has provided a rare opportunity to play mediator between opposing sides....
...Mr Obama said he had been guided by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who visited him recently at the White House, adding: “I’m not somebody who thinks the United States should stand on the sidelines...
...It has been quite a year for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader who spent much of the past 20 years in enforced confinement at her Yangon lakeside home on University Avenue....
...Aung Min, another reform-minded minister in the president’s office, who is accompanying Mr Thein Sein to the US, said he would attend Ms Suu Kyi’s congressional medal ceremony in Washington....
...Mr Groff, who met Aung San Suu Kyi in her new home in Naypyidaw, the capital, at the weekend, said Myanmar’s opposition leader was “cautiously upbeat” about prospects for further assistance but had expressed...
...The low-key leader will arrive at the UN on Thursday where he will address the General Assembly, in the shadow of a trip by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
...This week’s images of Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip to the US, where she has been personally welcomed by President Barack Obama, feted by adoring supporters and awarded Congress’ highest honour, say plenty about...
...On reconciliation and Aung San Suu Kyi: There has been instability and conflict between the military government in the past 20 years and Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy, and it is...
...reformist government of President Thein Sein came to power early last year, Ms Cox and Karin Finkelston, IFC vice-president for Asia Pacific, met the president and cabinet ministers, opposition leader Aung...
...Now, said Mr Aung Zaw, “he must live up to those words”....
...Diplomats and analysts in Yangon said the timing of the speech was “unexpected but unsurprising” in light of the international focus on the current tour of Europe by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
...On the final day of his three-day visit, Mr Ban also praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her decision to end her boycott of parliament and take her parliamentary seat....
...As Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi made her debut at Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time she has held political office, she was also adjusting to another new reality: life in the country...
...Following his release last year, the former aide to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, decided to run in the April 1 by-election....
...The strange dynamics of Myanmar’s rapid process of democratisation enter a new phase this week, when opposition leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi visits Europe in a five-country tour....
...Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has ended a week-long deadlock over her refusal to take her parliamentary seat, saying she would agree to swear a controversial oath to safeguard the country...
...A negotiating group led by Aung Thaung, former minister, has so far failed to engage Kachin leaders in peace talks....
...Aung Min, minister for rail transportation and a key negotiator with ethnic rebel groups, will be promoted to head the entire peace process....
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