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Obama calls for Aung San Suu Kyi release...fresh approach, and earlier this month met Kurt Campbell, Obama's top diplomat for east Asia in a rare trip outside her dilapidated mansion in Rangoon. Speaking in Tokyo yesterday, Obama made a point of mentioning Aung San Suu Kyi by name,... In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, Burma, Asean, US, Thein Sein, Democracy, Robert Gibbs, White House, and Singapore |
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BBC News | November 04, 2009
US diplomats meet Burmese leaders
...not meeting Burma's top leader, General Than Shwe. New approach Aung San Suu Kyi said nothing as she entered the lakeside hotel in Rangoon to meet the US officials. But the fact that she was seen in public and was allowed to meet such...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, US, Rangoon, Thein Sein, Burma, National League for Democracy, and Than Shwe
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NPR | November 04, 2009
U.S. Officials In Myanmar Granted Access To Suu Kyi
...for next year. Earlier Wednesday, Campbell greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his lakeside hotel in Yangon, where they met privately for two hours, U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Mei said. Dressed in a pink...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, Thein Sein, Washington, U.N., and Democracy
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Charlotte Observer | November 04, 2009
US officials visit isolated Myanmar, meet Suu Kyi
Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, exits the Inya Lake Hotel after meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Campbell met Suu Kyi...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, Washington, U.N., and Thein Sein
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 03, 2009
U.S., Myanmar officials hold talks
...Cabinet ministers and other officials Tuesday. Nyan Win said Campbell would meet with Suu Kyi in Yangon on Wednesday and then hold talks with other NLD leaders at the party headquarters. Suu Kyi was recently sentenced to an additional 18...
In this article: Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, United States, Nyan Win, Washington, National League for Democracy, and U.S. Air Force
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Seattle Times | November 03, 2009
Senior US officials visit Myanmar
...Cabinet ministers and other officials Tuesday. Nyan Win said Campbell will meet with Suu Kyi in Yangon on Wednesday and then hold talks with other NLD leaders at the party headquarters. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been...
In this article: Myanmar, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nyan Win, Washington, National League for Democracy, U.S. Air Force, and Madeleine Albright
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TIME | November 06, 2009
U.S.-Burma Relations: American Diplomats Visit Suu Kyi
The first high-level team of U.S. diplomats to visit Burma in 14 years met with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon on Wednesday in what some hope may signal the first steps toward breaking the political deadlock that has...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, U.S., Than Shwe, Democracy, Thein Sein, and Rangoon
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Top U.S. envoy meets with Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi
...Campbell, the top State Department official for East Asia, greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his lakeside hotel in Yangon where they met privately for two hours, U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Mei said. The content of...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, State Department, Thein Sein, Democracy, and North Korea
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New Kerala | November 13, 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi appeals against 18-month sentence
Her detention in her Yangon family home was extended by a special Insein prison court in August after she was found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest by briefly sheltering an uninvited American, John William Yettaw. The...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, John William Yettaw, Myanmar, US, US Senate, Jim Webb, and Virginia
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | October 08, 2009
Suu Kyi meeting with Western diplomats: embassies
Suu Kyi meeting with Western diplomats: embassies Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is meeting with Western diplomats in Yangon, embassies told AFP Friday. The military-ruled nation's foreign affairs ministry has granted...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Than Shwe, Burma, Democracy, US, and UK
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Yangon (, pronounced: /jàŋɡòũ mjo̰/; also known as Rangoon) is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Division. Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial center.
Yangon's infrastructure is relatively undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in Southeast Asia. Yangon has the largest number of colonial buildings in Southeast Asia today. While many high-rise residential and commercial buildings have been constructed or renovated throughout downtown and Greater Yangon in the past two decades, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be deeply impoverished.
- Name:
- Yangon
- Local Name:
- ရန်ကုန်
- Also Known As:
- Rangoon
- Motto:
- Yangon Purum Manaw Ra Man
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 0006
- Total Area (km):
- 598.75
- Time Zone:
- MST
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