Tokyo: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is on a six-day visit to Japan, her first trip to the country in 27 years since she visited Japan in 1985 as a visiting scholar. On Day 3 of her visit on Monday, Suu Kyi will drum up aid for Myanmar and also meet Burmese nationals based in Japan.
On Sunday, Suu Kyi traveled to Kyoto in central Japan. She rode on a shinkansen train from Tokyo to the ancient Japanese capital, where she resided as a visiting scholar from 1985 to 1986. At the station, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate received a rousing welcome from compatriots living in Japan as well as many Japanese.
From there she inspected a small hydroelectric power generator utilizing river current at Arashiyama mountain. She also gave lectures at Kyoto University and Ryukoku University. It was only after Myanmar's transition to democracy in 2011 that Suu Kyi made her first overseas trip in 24 years, visiting Thailand last May.
She has since traveled to Europe, including Norway, Britain and France, as well as to the United States, India and South Korea. In December 2011 in Yangon, Suu Kyi met then Japanese foreign minister Koichiro Gemba, who invited her to visit Japan. ...
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Yangon: Officially at least, America still calls this Southeast Asian nation Burma, the favoured appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who opposed the former military junta's move to summarily change its name 23 years ago. President Barack Obama used that name during his historic visit on Monday, but he also called Burma what the government and many other people have been calling it for years: Myanmar. That single word was...
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London: Accusing Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of being an "ally" of the military regime, an opposition party in Myanmar has asked the world investors not to engage in any investment with the present dispensation until a "genuine democratic government" is elected. "Aung San Suu Kyi has made a U-turn and now she is an ally, collaborator and mouthpiece of the military regime. She has become a coalition partner...
05:00 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
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On her first visit to the US since her release, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that dealing with crisis, one step at a time helps her to calm down. ...
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