Myanmar bars Suu Kyi from elections under new charter
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Aung San Suu Kyi will not be allowed to run for election under Myanmar's proposed constitution, which has now been drafted ahead of a referendum in May, the military government said Tuesday.
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Accusing Myanmar of crushing dissent, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday the southeast Asian country's recent national convention to draw up a constitution was undemocratic and exclusionary.
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Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party accused the military regime of endangering party leader Aung San Suu Kyi's life by restricting her access to a doctor and non-junta security.
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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been told by police she is being held under house arrest under a law which allows for such detention for up to a year, an opposition spokesman said Monday.
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Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met leaders of her National League for Democracy party for the second time in three months on Wednesday, party spokesman Nyan Win said.
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Myanmar has extended Aung San Suu  Kyi's detention, Malaysia's foreign minister said Monday,  confirming recent reports from Yangon that the junta had  decided to keep her in isolation.
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Myanmar's military junta has extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by another year, a government source said on Friday.
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Supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi protested Tuesday to demand democracy in Myanmar, days after the military regime said it would hold elections in 2010 under a new constitution likely to entrench the junta's powerful position.
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Thailand on Tuesday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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Accusing Myanmar of crushing  dissent, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday the southeast  Asian country&#39;s recent national convention to draw up a  constitution was undemocratic and exclusionary.
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NEW DELHI: Myanmar said Monday it will not allow its territory to be used for anti-India activities as New Delhi rolled out a red carpet to welcome Yangon&#39;s army leader, General Than Shwe.
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Army-ruled Myanmar announced a commission on Thursday to draft a new constitution as part of its "roadmap to democracy" derided by critics as a sham to keep the generals in power.
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Myanmar's military government will hold a referendum on a new constitution in May 2008 followed by multiparty elections in 2010 as part of the junta's roadmap to democracy, state television announced on Saturday.
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A weekly newspaper in military-ruled Myanmar skipped publication Thursday on government orders after flouting censorship rules, its publisher said.
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President George W. Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar on Tuesday and Western leaders warned the southeast Asian nation's army rulers against crushing pro-democracy protests by force.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Myanmar's junta freed at least  two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's  political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people  detained "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged  last month.
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Asia News, JAKARTA - Indonesia accused fellow ASEAN member Myanmar on Friday of dodging the issue of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyiâs detention and said there was a gap between official junta statements and reality.