Myanmar's Secretive Regime Ousts PM
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, seen as a relative pragmatist, and replaced him with a general who has taken a hard line in dealing with the country's pro-democracy movement.    Myanmar's state radio and television announced Tuesday that Prime Minister Gen...
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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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South-east Asian govern-ments yesterday abandoned attempts to censure Burma publicly for its human rights abuses, with officials admitting in private that they
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Myanmar&#39;s state radio and television announced yesterday that Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt has been replaced by a hardline member of the country&#39;s ruling military junta, Lieutenant General Soe Win.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken to a government guesthouse on Friday where she is believed to have met a senior junta official, witnesses said.
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Myanmar's prime minister has been  ousted and put under house arrest after a lengthy power  struggle in which hard-liners in the military government appear  to have come out on top, Thai officials and diplomats said on  Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar&#39;s military junta - securing peace with the country&#39;s armed ethnic rebel groups - may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - Khin Nyunt has been sacked as  prime minister of military-ruled Myanmar amid allegations of  corruption and placed under house arrest, a Thai government  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Military-ruled Myanmar will stick to its plans for gradual democratization despite the abrupt appointment of a new prime minister believed to hold a hard line in dealing with the country's political reform movement, Foreign Minister Nyan Win said Thursday.
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Myanmar's military rulers will keep opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi isolated under house arrest until at least Nov. 27 next year, her National League for Democracy (NLD) said on Wednesday.
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One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar's military junta &#151; securing peace with the country's armed ethnic rebel groups &#151; may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt lost his job this week.
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YANGON - Myanmar (Burmese) Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt has been placed under âprotective custodyâ in what appears to be a purge of the countryâs much-feared Military Intelligence (MI), military sources said on Tuesday.
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Burmaâs tough, but pragmatic, prime minister was sacked by his hardline army colleagues, clouding prospects for the freedom of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and for democracy in the military-led south-east Asian nation.
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Reports from Burma say Prime Minister Khin Nyunt has been removed from his position and placed under house arrest. Officials in Thailand first announced the development Tuesday in Bangkok.
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Myanmar&#39;s Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt is seen in this photo taken in June 2001 in Yangon, Myanmar. Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in the town of Mae Sot near the Myanmar border for a special Cabinet meeting, said Tuesday, Oct.
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Burma&#39;s secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, according to officials in neighbouring Thailand.
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The political leadership in Myanmar was riven with tensions amid rumours Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt may have been removed or arrested, according to sources in Thailand and Myanmar.