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Burma’s Suu Kyi Picks Tom Jones and the Beatles for Desert Island
Suu Kyi, who was finally elected to parliament last year, did not choose Tom Jones’ rendition of “Please release me,” but rather the Welsh crooner’s “Green,...
Behind the Story: TIME’s Hannah Beech on Burma’s President Thein Sein
In a rare example of top-down change, Burma's President, Thein Sein, has begun introducing democratic reforms after decades of military rule in the country also...
Burmese Democracy Icon’s Sweater Sells for $49,000
On Thursday night in Southeast Asia's poorest country, a sweater hand-knit by Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi sold for $49,000.
Briefing
'The most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight.' 1. AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the...
Photo Essays
Freedom for Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi
In order to get things done, she will have to learn to be more than an icon of democracy Photographs by Redux for TIME
Burma: Decades of Dissent
Aung San Suu Kyi's release is the latest chapter in a long series of battles for Burmese democracy waged by monks, students and ordinary citizens
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Top 10 Political Prisoners
Following elections earlier in November that were widely seen as a sham, Burma's ruling military junta released Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of the country's...
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Myanmar Democracy Advocate Says She Wants to Be President
At a meeting hosted by the World Economic Forum, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was for the first time unequivocal about her desire to run for president. ...
World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: Concern Over 2- Child Limit
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, rights groups and Islamic leaders expressed dismay over plans in Rakhine State to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does...
White House visit by Burma's Thein Sein a sign of changing times
RANGOON, BURMA -- T-shirts bearing images of President Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off the busy Kabar Aye...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Heckled Over Support of Mine in Myanmar
The hostile reception by farmers for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi underscores the rockiness of her transition from international symbol to elected official. ...
