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• Myanmar President Htin Kyaw releases 83 political prisoners, vows pardon for all under new administration

  The recent New Year Sunday celebration in Myanmar on Sunday saw the joyful reunion of political prisoners and their loved ones as President Htin Kyaw announced their pardon.

• Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets parliament boss after victory

  Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with parliament's powerful chairman on Sunday after an election landslide set to usher in democracy and sweep out much of the military old guard.

• Myanmar's Suu Kyi set for sweeping power as election wins mount

  Fresh results from Myanmar's election on Tuesday showed the opposition taking control of most regional assemblies as well as forming the next government, handing democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi sweeping powers and reshaping the political landscape.

• Suu Kyi supporters confident after Myanmar's historic election

  Supporters of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi burst into boisterous celebration on Sunday after the country held its first free nationwide election in 25 years, the biggest step yet in a journey to democracy from dictatorship.

• For Myanmar's Muslims, little to cheer about historic election

  In a refugee camp outside Myanmar's provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him a vote in Sunday's historic election.

• Suu Kyi looks set to win Myanmar election, but problems loom

  When Aung San Suu Kyi's candidate emerges at a campaign rally in southern Myanmar, the crowd bursts into cheers and showers him with flowers, confident that the opposition will prevail this weekend after decades of struggle against military rulers.

• Around 4 million voters shut out of historic Myanmar election

  When Myanmar votes next month in what has been billed as its first free and fair election in 25 years, Tun Lin, and around 4 million of his fellow citizens, won't be taking part.

• Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi says rebel groups shouldn't rush peace deal

  Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the weekend appealed to ethnic rebel groups in nationwide ceasefire talks with the government not to rush the deal, but work slowly on an agreement that would ensure long-lasting peace and stability.

• Myanmar's ousted party leader opens parliament for showdown session

  The embattled speaker of Myanmar's parliament opened the lower house on Tuesday for what will likely be a fractious session, with ruling party factions facing each other for the first time since the president sacked him from a leadership post last week.

• Myanmar's Suu Kyi says 'too early' to commit to 2015 election

  Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on the government on Tuesday to hold a transparent election next year and said her party was waiting for a poll date to be set before deciding whether to run.

• Obama says barring Suu Kyi from Myanmar presidency 'doesn't make much sense'

  Standing next to Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that the law barring her from becoming president "doesn't make much sense".

• ASEAN to pressure China to stick to diplomacy on maritime disputes

  Southeast Asian leaders will welcome China's Prime Minister Le Keqiang with fanfare on Wednesday but behind closed doors will push their giant neighbor to take a less bellicose approach to overlapping claims in the South China Sea.

• Washington takes hands-off stance on future of Myanmar's Suu Kyi

  Despite hailing Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as “an icon of democracy,” U.S. President Barack Obama is quietly acquiescing to the government's decision to bar her from running for the presidency in next year’s election, U.S. officials say.

• Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to visit China, says party official

  Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi will pay an official visit to China next month, an official from her party said Tuesday.

• Myanmar calls meeting of political, military heavyweights

  Myanmar's president and powerful military chief will hold an unprecedented high-level meeting on Friday with major political parties and ethnic minority groups as cracks widen in the fledgling democracy ahead of an election next year.

• Ex-BBC DJ Dave Lee Travis convicted of indecent assault

  Dave Lee Travis, one of Britain's best-known radio DJs in the 1970s and 1980s who counted Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, was found guilty on Tuesday of indecently assaulting a television researcher.