Burma is urged to meet opposition
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HARBIN, China - China and Russia urged Burma's military rulers to talk with the country's opposition but said yesterday that they opposed any UN sanctions against the junta.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a symbol of peaceful defiance in Burma, but she has been kept quiet as protests have escalated.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for Myanmar&#39;s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from house arrest.
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Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly protests against a reduction in her security.
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Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is frustrated at a lack of talks on political reform with the ruling military junta since last year's bloody crackdown on dissent, her party said on Wednesday.
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The UN secretary general calls for Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed from house arrest.
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Some of the world's top artistes and musicians have banded together to push for the freedom of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, activists said as US legislators considered seeking UN Security Council action against the military regime in Yangon.
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A Buddhist group claiming to be aiding monks drive an escalating protest movement in Myanmar called Saturday for nationwide prayer vigils in a bid to turn up the heat on the military regime.
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China has gently urged Burma's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor.
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A top U.S. official pressed senior representatives of Myanmar's military regime to free imprisoned Nobel laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a rare meeting, the State Department said Thursday.
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Thailand's army-installed premier pressed neighboring Myanmar's junta for democratic reform in a one-day visit that invited comparisons between the two military juntas.
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RANGOON, Burma - About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns yesterday mounted the largest antigovernment protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar's generals threatened action against further attempts at demonstrations on Tuesday and parked military trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the main protests.
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Myanmar&#39;s military rulers should end the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and allow her National League for Democracy to operate, the US State Department said.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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The US has urged the Burmese government to release the opposition leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, from house arrest &quot;immediately and unconditionally&quot;.
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Burma&#39;s pro-democracy opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been told she faces another year under house arrest. Colleagues in her National League for Democracy said that police had visited her last Friday to inform her of the extension.