ILO lifts sanctions against Burma/Myanmar GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva is having a heady international relations celebrities week, with the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim Helú, speaking at the UN Monday, followed by Burma/Myanmar Nobel laureate, political activist and leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressing the ILO (Interntaional Labour Organization) Thursday 14 June before moving on [...]
Switzerland to open Myanmar embassy
June 1, 2012 by
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland announced Friday afternoon 1 June that it will be opening an embassy in Myanmar/Burma “this summer”. The next four years will also see CHF25 million in development funding going to the country, some of it for food security programmes and the rest for demining and vocational training. The statement from Bern [...]
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to address ILO in Geneva
May 22, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will be in Geneva 14 June, her first stop abroad since being released from house arrest by Myanmar/Burmese authorities earlier this year. The head of her country’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will speak at the International Labour Organization‘s 101st international labour conference. Some 4,000 [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi sworn in to parliament in Burma
May 2, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to parliament Wednesday 2 May, finally taking public office after a 25-year long struggle against the country’s military regime. The Nobel prize winner had initially refused the phrasing for the swearing in, which holds her to “safeguard the constitution” drafted by the [...]
Myanmar leader visa ban lifted, as opposition’s Aung San Suu Kyi elected
April 3, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Myanmar/Birma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was easily elected to parliament, a move widely applauded in the West, after her years of house arrest by the country’s military regime. Recognition by the state of her election is part of a series of reforms that in January led the European Union to [...]
Pressure put on Suu Kyi in Myanmar
November 22, 2010 by
An Aids clinic in a Yangon (Rangoon) suburb has been told to close by Dangon local authorities after a visit 17 November by Aung San Suu Kyi, recently released from house arrest after 7-1/2 years of detention. Authorities say neighbours have complained about the clinic. Nine local magazines have also been told to suspend publication [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi (Chappatte cartoon)
November 15, 2010 by
©2010 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.
Suu Kyi calls for compromise with Burmese regime
November 15, 2010 by
Pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, released from house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar Saturday 13 November, has said she would try to work with the military regime. “I’ve always believed in compromise. I don’t like the idea that people think we are not for compromise”, she told thousands of her followers at a press conference [...]
Excitement mounts ahead of Suu Kyi’s release
November 12, 2010 by
Aung San Suu Kyi, held under house arrest for 15 of the last 20 years, may be released within hours, according to reports coming out of Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar. Her detention officially comes to an end Saturday, 13 November, but Suu Kyi has repeatedly said that she would not accept a release [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi may be released in November
October 28, 2010 by
Burma/Myanmar’s jailed pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may be released from house arrest when the term of her sentence is completed, sources at the ASEAN conference in Hanoi, Vietnam have said. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told Reuters 28 October that his Burmese counterpart had told him: “Once the prison term of her sentence [...]
