Aung San Suu Kyi News

Tokyo has said it will provide aid to Myanmar if democratic reforms are advanced.

President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.

After many years of what seemed an intractable situation in Burma, the events of recent weeks have given some reason for hope, thanks mostly to the United State's new policy of engagement with the isolated regime.

The United States government's diplomatic foray into military-ruled Burma made early inroads into an area sealed off to United Nations envoys in recent years-meeting the country's oppressed ethnic minorities.

PRIME Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Saturday said Japan plans to increase aid to Myanmar gradually while hailing Washington's latest efforts to engage the military-ruled country.

Washington, D.C. a ' US envoys who paid a rare visit to Myanmar say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but the junta's plans to hold 2010 elections are casting a shadow that could disrupt the delicate process.

Asean should also step in as a united front and push its peer to conduct free and fair elections.

On September 23, the general debate of the 64th session of the United Nations opened with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reaffirming the UN Charter and faith in the principles of peace, justice, human rights and equal opportunity for all.

US gives Myanmar a tentative embrace By Brian McCartan BANGKOK - Senior United States representatives returned from a two-day fact-finding trip to Myanmar on Thursday without any major breakthroughs, but then they were not planning on any.

TEHRAN: Iran and Syria have denied Israeli claims that a ship seized in the Mediterranean was carrying Iranian weapons for Hezbollah militants.

Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, exits the Inya Lake Hotel in Yangon, the country's capital, after meeting Wednesday with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Myanmar say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but the junta's plans to hold 2010 elections are casting a shadow that could disrupt the delicate process.

Win Aung, a former foreign minister and one of ex-spy chief Gen Khin Nyunt's aides, died on Wednesday morning at 1:55 a.m. local time in Rangoon's infamous Insein Prison.

JAILED Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi must be allowed to participate in next year's elections for the world to accept the result, the US has said.

The visiting US delegation's talks with the Burmese regime, ethnic minority groups and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has coincided this week with the news that the China gas pipeline project is finally under way in Arakan State.

ABU DHABI // On the eve of the anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis, an Iranian lawyer, former judge and Nobel peace laureate criticised the handling of the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic, and expressed her disappointment in the United States' neglect of human rights issues in its negotiations with Iran.

Nov 4 - A top U.S. official has held rare talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as part of a high-level visit to the isolated country.

Two U.S. diplomats arrived in Myanmar Tuesday and will meet with imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The 'magical' world of Disney is set for China, after planners approved a new theme park in Shanghai.

A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.