Tag: Aung San Suu Kyi
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New Myanmar filmmakers shoot to rekindle golden years
The Southeast Asian nation used to be a regional cinematic hub before the 1962-installed military junta suppressed creativity, imposed censorship and cut the country off from outside influences.
June 7, 2019 -
Suu Kyi tries to save face with Myanmar reporters’ release
Observers say the unexpected release of the two Reuters reporters was a political decision timed to save face for the country's civilian leader, after a vigorous international campaign that saw Amal Clooney join their legal team.
May 9, 2019 -
Two Reuters journalists freed from Myanmar prison reunite with families
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said: "We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters".
May 7, 2019 -
Cruellest Irony
The Supreme Court in Yangon has played to the gallery of the junta ~ and at a pinch, the diplomatically evasive Aung San Suu Kyi as well ~ by rejecting the final appeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
April 27, 2019 -
Thailand’s tryst with post-military rule
Back to today’s Thailand. When the Thai military rulers scripted a constitution in 2017, it was inevitable that they would get inspiration from their neighbour country, and they became cautious too from the Burmese experience.
March 28, 2019 -
Round One to Suu Kyi
Comment on whether her agenda will attain fruition must await the evolution of developments not the least because the military still retains the power to veto constitutional change.
February 27, 2019 -
Voice of the Refugee
There is almost a collective sense of spurious satisfaction in Myanmar over the refusal of the 700,000 Rohingyas to return from the squalid camps of Bangladesh. Equally, much as it hoped to start the repatriation very shortly, there is little doubt that the government in Dhaka must be sorely disappointed ~ a month before the …
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November 19, 2018 -
Will plan for Rohingya repatriation work?
Despite the concerns expressed by the UN refugee agency and other human rights groups, the repatriation could go ahead if both Bangladesh and Myanmar choose to do so
November 16, 2018 -
Another award less
It is yet another subtraction from the garland of accolades that were once reserved for the “lodestar of democracy”. That embroidery has frayed over time, to say the least. Amnesty International has eventually sized up Aung San Suu Kyi with Monday’s assertion that Myanmar’s civilian leader “is no longer a symbol of hope”. Hopeless too …
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November 14, 2018 -
‘No longer a symbol of hope’: Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
It was the latest in a string of awards the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner lost since Myanmar's military drove 720,000 Rohingya out of the Buddhist majority country in what the United Nations has called an act of genocide.
November 13, 2018 -
Suu Kyi seeks foreign investment at Asean summit
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday appealed to members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to invest in her country.
November 12, 2018 -
Free for now
The discharge on bail of three journalists of Myanmar’s Eleven Media group, two weeks after they had been charged under provisions of the country’s penal code that allow no bail, suggests that the country is belatedly realising there are lines it cannot cross if it wishes to prolong the fiction that it is a democracy. …
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October 28, 2018 -
Indian foreign secretary discusses bilateral cooperation with Suu Kyi
Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale called on Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday during his official visit to the country.
October 22, 2018 -
Suu kyi calls for peace in trilateral talks
The event also came three months after the third session of Myanmar's 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in July.
October 15, 2018 -
Rohingya Issue: Canada revokes Suu Kyi’s honorary citizenship
The honour was bestowed on Suu Kyi in 2007. Now, she has become the first person to have her honorary Canadian citizenship revoked.
October 3, 2018 -
Work still in progress
The Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project in Myanmar, entirely funded by the Union government, is still far from completion owing to a host of unresolved reasons.
September 24, 2018 -
Gut-churning narrative
It is time for Aung San Suu Kyi to end her studied silence. Time also for her to appeal to the military to end the relentless repression of Rohingyas. That horrendous repression was graphically documented on Tuesday by the voice of the comity of nations, the UN Human Rights Council. The horrific accounts of murders, …
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September 21, 2018