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The Standard
April 21, 2018
This, in effect, was what the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) tried to impart on Friday on whether President Rodrigo Duterte would make a personal apology to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The DFA was reacting to criticisms over the president's comment on the Rohingya crisis. Duterte ...
Business Standard
April 19, 2018
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Business Standard
April 16, 2018
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Marianas Variety
April 15, 2018
MANILA (Reuters) — Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte apologized to Myanmar counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for saying genocide was taking place in her country, saying his remark was a satirical barb at the West for not taking in Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and rights groups say ...
Channel NewsAsia
April 13, 2018
MANILA: Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte apologised to Myanmar counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for saying genocide was taking place in her country, saying his remark was a satirical barb at the West for not taking in Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and rights groups say nearly 700,000 ...
The Australian
April 12, 2018
There are many political, legal and physical obstacles that would have to be negotiated before Ms Suu Kyi could be brought to face any criminal charges but an astonishing thing has happened in recent months. It is now imaginable that the world's most famous living symbol of human rights, a recipient of ...
The Times
April 12, 2018
Suffering of the Rohingya catches up with Suu Kyi. It is no longer impossible to imagine 'The Lady' being accused of crimes against humanity, writes Richard Lloyd Parry. More than 70,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh after the campaign of violence began. More than 70,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh ...
Eleven Myanmar
April 11, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi replied to the question about the peace process coming from Myat Moe Facebook Account, “There are three questions. The last question is to ask yourself. The government wants peace and so does the Tatmadaw (defence services). Ethnic armed organizations are also the same matter.
Brookings Institution (blog)
April 5, 2018
U Win Myint is a longtime member of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) and a trusted partner of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. His election and the peaceful transfer of power from the military-backed Vice President U Myint Swe, who held the presidency for the week following former ...
Gulf Today
April 3, 2018
YANGON: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for her people to remain united, saying the Southeast Asian country faces “challenges” at home ... In a televised speech, Suu Kyi made only a passing reference to the crisis in Rakhine state, where her government faces mounting international ...
National Observer
April 3, 2018
Bob Rae says no Myanmar politician, including Nobel laureate and honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi, is above a potential investigation by the International Criminal Court of possible war crimes in her country. Rae, who was appointed Canada's special envoy to the seven-month-old Rohingya ...
Nasdaq
April 1, 2018
YANGON, April 1 (Reuters) - Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for her people to remain united, saying the Southeast Asian country faces "challenges" at home and abroad, as she marked two years since her party swept to power in a historic vote. In a televised speech, Suu Kyi ...
Herald-Whig
April 1, 2018
Myanmar's new President Win Myint waves to the media after taking oath of office at Parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, March 30, 2018. Myanmar sworn the longtime Aung San Suu Kyi loyalist as the country's new president, who will continue his predecessor's deference to her as the nation's de ...
Mizzima News
March 31, 2018
Myanmar's new president promised to look at the country's military-written constitution, corruption and human rights in his inaugural speech Friday, challenging a charter that bans Aung San Suu Kyi from top office and gives the military major powers. Win Myint, a 66-year-old former political prisoner and ...
Irish Times
March 31, 2018
“At the time of Honor's christening,” she tries to go, “Aung San Suu Kyi was a Nobel Peace Prize winner living under house arrest and – I believed – a strong female role model. And, yes, like a lot of people who supported her, I've been very disappointed by her silence on the terrible atrocities that have been committed on ...
Irish Examiner
March 31, 2018
Suu Kyi a 'handmaiden to ethnic cleansing': Geldof ... Suu Kyi was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 2000 by Dublin City Council. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in ... “Then I saw that Aung San Suu Kyi was on it because she got it on the day that I spoke welcome to her. And I thought ...
Radio Free Asia
March 31, 2018
Two years ago today, both Myanmar and the international community hailed the coming to power of Aung San Suu Kyi — leader of the political opposition who endured 15 years of house arrest for challenging the military dictatorship, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and icon of democracy — in the Southeast ...
euronews
March 29, 2018
A close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi is the new president of Myanmar. Win Myint was chosen by both chambers of parliament where Suu Kyi's ruling partyhas a comfortable majority. His predecessor resigned through illness. The country's constitution bars Suu Kyi herself from taking the top office.
TIME
March 29, 2018
(NAYPYITAW, Myanmar) — Myanmar's parliament on Wednesday elected Win Myint, a loyalist of Aung San Suu Kyi, as new president, while Suu Kyi retained her executive authority over the government. The vote comes as Suu Kyi's civilian government has struggled to implement peace and national ...
ABC Online
March 22, 2018
"It is bewildering isn't it that someone [Aung San Suu Kyi] who has been such a fighter for even a fragile democracy and who has been hailed as someone who upholds human rights, does not seem to be speaking out more clearly about the atrocities that are so very clearly happening under her watch," ...
Prospect
March 22, 2018
In March, the US Holocaust Museum revoked a human rights award it had given to Burma's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing her of doing too little to stop the persecution of the Rohingya population in Rakhine. This came hard on the heels of other such revocations, including an honorary ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
Meditation and Law: the Suu Kyi Loyalist Tipped for Myanmar Presidency. March 22, 2018, at 6:30 a.m.. March 22, 2018, at 6:30 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Meditation and Law: the Suu Kyi Loyalist Tipped for Myanmar Presidency. More. Win Myint, who recently resigned his post of speaker of the Lower House of ...
The Guardian
March 21, 2018
Htin Kyaw was an important ally in the government for state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is constitutionally barred from the presidency, and the pair were childhood friends. Htin Kyaw was nominated as president by Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, in 2016 and she ...
Bowling Green Daily News
March 21, 2018
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar President Htin Kyaw, close friend of leader Aung San Suu Kyi, announces that he is retiring. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Love. 0. Funny. 0. Wow. 0. Sad. 0. Angry. 0.
Herald-Whig
March 21, 2018
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is welcomed to Parliament House by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during her state visit in Canberra Monday, March 19,2018. The Nobel Peace laureate who has been widely condemned over her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority ...
Philippine Star
March 21, 2018
MANILA, Philippines — Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged the Philipines and Thailand for providing humanitarian ... Suu Kyi was also complaining about how the international media portrays the plight of the Rohingya people, who have fled after the destruction of homes in the ...
ABC Online
March 20, 2018
The West has long had a messiah fantasy: a belief in the power of a charismatic individual to carry the hopes of his or her nation. This messiah would bring freedom and democracy to previously despotic regimes. The list is long: Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, in recent times Hamid ...
Longview News-Journal
March 19, 2018
Suu Kyi arrived in Sydney over the weekend for a summit of Southeast Asian leaders and her state visit officially began Monday as she was welcomed to Parliament House in Canberra. Her visit comes as she faces international criticism over what has become Asia's worst refugee crisis in decades.
euronews
March 19, 2018
Close to 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since a crackdown against the community began last year. The United Nations has described the situation as "ethnic cleansing". Aung San Suu Kyi was met by street protests and even a lawsuit when she attended an ASEAN summit in Sydney last week.
CNN
March 19, 2018
Outside Australia's Parliament, Suu Kyi was greeted with a 19-gun salute and an honor guard before her meeting with the prime minister. During her visit she has been met with criticism and protests by local Rohingya groups, who issued a statement calling for Turnbull to raise the ongoing human rights ...
The Daily Progress
March 13, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi once was acclaimed as a courageous civil-rights leader, a shining example of moral strength opposing tyranny. When elections finally were ... Ms. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former winner of the Elie Wiesel Award from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The museum recently ...
The Hill
March 13, 2018
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Burma's independence from Britain. In that time, the expectations of an entire nation for peace, prosperity and freedom have been borne by one family, first by General Aung San, who secured independence in 1948, then by his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel ...
ChronicleLive
March 12, 2018
After pledging to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her Freedom of the City honour, Newcastle City Council has admitted it is not actually sure how to do it. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was once heralded for her opposition to Myanmar's ruling military junta and helping to introduce elements of democracy into the ...
NPR
March 11, 2018
And he was one of the people behind a rather stunning letter the museum sent Suu Kyi earlier this week. It read in part, it is with great regret that we're now rescinding that award. The museum says Suu Kyi, who is Myanmar's civilian leader, has not stepped in to stop the genocide of her country's Muslim ...
TheBlaze.com
March 10, 2018
The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. is the latest organization to revoke a human rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar. Suu Kyi was considered to be a human rights icon, but her indifference to the plight of the Rohingya Muslim people in her country has frustrated ...
Axios
March 9, 2018
Myanmar's de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been stripped of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's prestigious Elie Wiesel Award, the New York Times reports, for "failing to halt or even acknowledge the ethnic cleansing" in her country. The bigger picture: A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is leading a country in the ...
CNN International
March 7, 2018
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum museum announced Wednesday it was rescinding the prestigious Elie Wiesel Award granted to Suu Kyi in 2012 because she had failed to intervene in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country's northern Rakhine State. In a statement, Myanmar's embassy in ...
TIME
March 1, 2018
(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — Three peace prize laureates who met with Rohingya Muslims in sprawling refugee camps accused fellow Nobel recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's military of committing genocide in the deadly violence that forced hundreds of thousands to flee into Bangladesh. Suu Kyi ...
Ballarat Courier
February 28, 2018
Three Nobel Peace laureates have accused Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation's military of genocide for their role in violence that has forced ... refugee camps, said at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday that their fellow Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi cannot avoid responsibility.
Macau Daily Times
February 28, 2018
Three Nobel Peace laureates yesterday accused Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation's military of genocide for their role in violence that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. The laureates, who are on a weeklong trip to Bangladesh to visit the ...
Aljazeera.com
February 28, 2018
They urged Myanmar's defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the violence against Rohingya refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide. Aung San Suu Kyi "is directly responsible for the crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslims," said Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace ...
Harvard Crimson
February 21, 2018
Following a military crackdown in Myanmar last fall, the Foundation began conversations with student groups to discuss how to better respond to criticisms of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to Foundation student intern Jasmine Chia '18. “The Harvard Foundation therefore believes that Aung San Suu Kyi's ...
Aljazeera.com
February 12, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi 'doesn't fully understand Rohingya horror'. Britain's Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, says Myanmar's leader is not fully aware of what he called 'the horror' in northern Rakhine state. by Paul Chaderjian. 12 Feb 2018 ...
euronews
February 11, 2018
Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson has met Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to press for action on the Rohingya crisis where troops are accused of atrocities against the Muslim ... Suu Kyi has faced heavy international criticism for not taking a higher profile in responding to the strife.
Tricycle
February 4, 2018
“We will stand by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. We will stand by our government. We will stand by our army.” The sudden unity of the previously discordant strands of Myanmar history was disorienting, but so was the Wizard of Oz–like screen posted atop City Hall and the hush that fell over the crowd as everyone looked up to ...
CNN
January 31, 2018
Wednesday marks two years since Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party (NLD) took control of Myanmar's parliament after winning the 2015 elections, giving the country its first democratic government in decades. Myanmar's de-facto leader has since been the target of international condemnation ...
bdnews24.com
December 31, 1999
Suu Kyi last visited Vietnam in November 2017 when she attended the Asia-Pacific Ecomomic Cooperation (APEC) summit, reports Xinhua news agency. Myanmar established diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1975. Last August, a Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership was established between the ...
Foreign Affairs
December 31, 1999
The NLD's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, an internationally celebrated dissident who had received the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to democratize Myanmar, became Myanmar's de facto head of state. Many analysts and officials concluded that the county was finally on the path to democratic rule.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The Guardian reported on Saturday morning that five Australian lawyers, including a former federal court judge, had filed a private application in the Melbourne magistrates court seeking prosecution of Aung San Suu Kyi over crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya ethnic and religious ...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
Win Myint's recent pledge to amend the constitution, which bars Suu Kyi from the presidency and gives wide-ranging power to the military, could destabilise Myanmar's fragile transition from military to civilian rule, which began in 2011 when the military was replaced with a semi-civilian government after ...
