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As two Reuters journalists neared the end of a week in detention in Myanmar on Tuesday, there was no word on where they were being held as authorities proceeded with an investigation into whether they violated the country`s colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
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The pontiff will be received by President Htin Kyaw in Myanmar capital.
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Rohingya Muslims say Myanmar soldiers raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women in a remote village in the northwest of the country during the biggest upsurge in violence against the persecuted minority in four years.
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A presidential pardon published this morning said 83 people would be freed, but it did not specify how many were political prisoners.
Myanmar`s Aung Sang Suu Kyi underwent successful eye surgery Saturday, a senior party official said, weeks after the 70-year-old`s fledgling administration took power.
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Aung San Suu Kyi`s party moved Thursday to make her a special state adviser, as she cements control over Myanmar`s first civilian government in decades from a position that could be akin to a prime minister.
Last November`s polls, the freest in decades, saw her party rake in 80 percent of available parliament seats, giving them a massive public mandate.
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Htin Kyaw, the man chosen by Aung San Suu Kyi to serve as her proxy, was sworn in as Myanmar`s President on Wednesday.
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Myanmar`s president-elect Htin Kyaw nominated Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading.
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Myanmar`s president-elect has nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the cabinet formed by her National League for Democracy (NLD), the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, after the party swept to a historic election victory in November.
Myanmar`s Aung San Suu Kyi thanked her supporters Wednesday and sounded a hopeful note for the future, in her first comments after lawmakers approved her chosen proxy to become the nation`s first civilian president in decades.
Myanmar`s powerful army chief congratulated incoming president Htin Kyaw and pledged cooperation on Wednesday, after the ally of Aung San Suu Kyi was elected as the country`s first head of state with no military background in decades.
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Myanmar is undergoing a dramatic transformation from an isolated and repressed pariah state to a rapidly opening aspiring democracy.
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Myanmar is in the grip of a stunning transformation from an isolated and repressed pariah state to a rapidly opening aspiring democracy.
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Myanmar is in the grip of a stunning transformation from an isolated and repressed pariah state to a rapidly opening aspiring democracy.
Myanmar`s parliament will hold a historic presidential vote Tuesday expected to confirm that a trusted confidant and anointed proxy of Aung San Suu Kyi will be the former junta-run nation`s first civilian leader in decades.
A trusted aide of Myanmar`s Aung San Suu Kyi was a step closer to becoming the country`s first civilian leader in generations after sailing through a parliamentary vote Friday, while the still-powerful military put forward a hardline retired general as its vice president nominee.
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A third candidate will be put forward by the military bloc, which has a constitutionally mandated 25 per cent of reserved seats in parliament.
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