The US eases one of the sanctions it levels against Burma, as authorities officially recognise pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s election bid.

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The Obama administration is preparing to send an ambassador to Burma for the first time in 24 years, S ecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday in a further sign of the thaw in relations between the two countries. Read full article > >

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Clinton, citing thaw, says U.S. will send ambassador to Burma

Before the Green Revolution in Iran, before Tunisia and Tahrir Square, there was the Saffron Revolution in Burma: a peaceful uprising for democracy, led by Buddhist monks, that was brutally suppressed by the ruling generals . Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Prisoner release keeps Burma’s reforms on track

British foreign secretary says he believes momentum for change in Burma is real but warns against relaxing pressure, after talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Hague: ‘More Burma change needed’

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the BBC she is optimistic Burma will hold “full democratic elections” in her lifetime.

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William Hague is visiting Burma, the first UK foreign secretary to do so for more than 50 years.

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Hague urges more Burmese reform

British Foreign Secretary William Hague will call on Burma’s leaders to release more political prisoners during his visit to the country.

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China joins Burma, Laos and Thailand in river patrols along the Mekong after killing of 13 Chinese sailors.

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China joins Mekong River patrols

RANGOON, Burma — Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the home of Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for a meeting that was both personal and formal as two of the world’s most famous female political figures discussed the sudden and unexpected signs of reforms in Burma. The meeting between the U.S. secretary of state and the leader of Burma’s long-persecuted democracy movement — unthinkable just three months ago — was yet another sign of the incredible changes afoot in Burma. Read full article > >

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Hillary Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi discuss Burma’s road to democracy

RANGOON, Burma — Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the home of Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for a meeting that was both personal and formal as two of the world’s most famous female political figures discussed the sudden signs of reform in Burma. The meeting between the U.S. secretary of state and the leader of Burma’s long-persecuted democracy movement — unthinkable just three months ago — was yet another sign of the incredible change afoot in Burma. Read full article > >

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledges improved ties if Burma continues current reforms, during landmark talks with President Thein Sein.

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US to reward further Burma reform

NAYPYIDAW, Burma — The highest-ranking U.S. official to set foot in Burma’s presidential palace, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brought a message of praise to Burma’s president Thursday for his nascent gestures of reform, even as she warned him that significantly more progress was needed for change to take root. Read full article > >

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Clinton offers Burma incentives, meets Suu Kyi

BALI, Indonesia — Burma seemed poised for a historic shift Friday as dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her long boycott of the country’s authoritarian political system and President Obama announced plans to send the U.S. secretary of state there for the first time in half a century. The back-to-back announcements were the clearest sign yet of how seriously the Obama administration and Suu Kyi — the standard-bearer of Burma’s long- persecuted democracy movement — are taking the political changes instituted by the country’s leaders. Read full article > >

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U.S. sees Burma reforms as strategic opening to support democracy

Kyaw Win was 22 years old when he first glimpsed the world outside Burma. It was 1975, and he’d traveled to his country’s eastern border, where short bridges cross a river from the Burmese town of Tachilek to Mae Sai in Thailand. “The bridges, I quite remember, are not more than 100 or 200 feet, but life there was totally different,” Kyaw Win recalls. Read full article > >

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After seeking U.S. asylum, Kyaw Win describes former life as Burmese diplomat