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AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2016
Suu Kyi to control Myanmar government, party spokesman says
She is unlikely to take a formal role in Myanmar's government, but pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will steer the incoming government of her National League for Democracy (NLD), the party said on Sunday. She will stay on as party head.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 15, 2016
Myanmar's new president is an unlikely leader
For years he walked alongside Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a quiet confidant in her campaign for democracy in Myanmar. On Tuesday, with her blessing, Htin Kyaw became the country's president.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 10, 2016
Myanmar presidency beckons for Suu Kyi confidant Htin Kyaw
Until two months ago, Htin Kyaw was not even a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Now he is the favored presidential candidate of Myanmar's ruling party, on course to become the country's first head of state since the 1960s who is not a former top-ranking member of the...
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2016
Myanmar brings forward date for presidential nominations
Myanmar will announce presidential nominations on March 10, the speaker of its upper house of parliament said on Tuesday, advancing the original date by a week, as a lengthy political transition enters its last stages.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 3, 2016
Travel ban fuels talk of Myanmar constitutional challenge
The party of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has instructed its lawmakers not to leave the capital, rank-and-file members said, fueling speculation of a legal bid to sidestep a clause in the constitution barring the democracy champion from the presidency.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2016
Suu Kyi's NLD allies set to form ruling party after decades of struggle in Myanmar
After decades of struggle, hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) are set to form Myanmar's ruling party on Monday, with enough seats in parliament to choose the first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 26, 2015
Asia's person of the year and the death of a giant
It took two elections spaced over a quarter of a century, but Myanmar's military junta has finally got the message and is obeying the will of the citizens as expressed in the 2015 elections. In November, the ruling Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) woke up to find out just how reviled it really...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2015
Twenty years in the making, Daiwa-tutored Myanmar bourse fetes baby-steps debut
Starting a stock market is hard. Just ask Ryota Sugishita.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 6, 2015
Myanmar's ex-dictator sees Suu Kyi as country's 'future leader,' grandson says
Myanmar's former dictator sees erstwhile foe Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's "future leader" and has pledged to support her even though she is currently barred by the constitution from becoming president, his grandson said on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 2, 2015
U.S. sanctions on Myanmar unlikely to change dramatically, says nominee to be ambassador
President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar said on Tuesday he does not anticipate major changes in U.S. sanctions in the wake of the country's historic election last month.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 28, 2015
Asia mostly backsliding on democratic values
In Japan, lawyers are fortunately not arrested by the state for doing their job, as they are in China. Nor are academics faced with indictment for challenging mainstream history narratives, as in South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2015
A long and winding road for Myanmar's NLD
Forging a relationship with the military while edging it aside will require extraordinary sensitivity on the part of the NLD government.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 16, 2015
Suu Kyi landslide dashes minorities' hopes for role in government
A landslide victory by Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's historic election has raised questions over whether the Nobel laureate can overcome distrust from leaders of ethnic minorities and solve long-simmering conflicts along Myanmar's borders.
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2015
Myanmar's historic election
The NLD's triumph in Myanmar's election is an important victory for democracy, but amid the celebration it's important to remember this is only a beginning.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 11, 2015
Suu Kyi's NLD heads to big win in Myanmar vote, but untested party faces challenges, resistance
The question over Myanmar's first free election in decades no longer appears to be whether Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party will win, but whether it will secure the landslide needed to govern the country and enact promised changes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2015
Voting proceeds smoothly in Myanmar's first free election for 25 years
Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian nation's first free nationwide election in 25 years, its biggest stride yet in a journey from dictatorship to democracy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 4, 2015
Myanmar's opposition expects better ties with China if it wins election
Myanmar's opposition, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, expects warm ties with China if it wins Sunday's parliamentary elections — good news for its northern neighbor, which has seen its influence wane amid tensions with the current government.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2015
Barred from remote island, Myanmar's opposition sees dirty tricks in campaign
A sparsely populated cluster of Indian Ocean islands has become the unlikely focus of allegations that Myanmar's government is spiking the chances of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party in next month's landmark general election.

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