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CT scanner buy part of Myanmar health upgrade

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Thein Sein, President of Myanmar, speaks Sept. 27, 2012, during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (Associated Press)

Myanmar leader hails democratic reform

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

In U.N. stunner, Myanmarese leader praises Suu Kyi

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Myanmar’s new foreign investment law lays out broad powers for a regulatory investment commission that is already struggling to keep up. The panel has put on a fresh, investor-friendly face, but its functionaries are trying to cope with a deluge of investor interest. (Associated Press)

Myanmar has investors waiting

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York told Myanmar President Thein Sein that the United States will ease its import ban on the country. (Associated Press)

U.S. to ease import ban on Myanmar

By Matthew Lee and Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Drug lord and gang plead guilty to killing Chinese sailors

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sept. 25, 2012. Fort Wayne is home to one of the largest Burmese populations in the United States. (Associated Press)

Suu Kyi cautiously optimistic for Myanmar future

By Tom Coyne - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks Sept. 18, 2012, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Suu Kyi calls for release of Russian punk rock band

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 19, 2012, as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, look on. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Myanmar reform leader Suu Kyi praised on Hill

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party, speaks at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. The Asia Society co-hosted the event. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Suu Kyi backs lifting of U.S. sanctions on Myanmar

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) greets Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi meets with Clinton in Washington

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) arrives Sept. 16 2012, at Yangon International Airport in Yangon to leave for the United States — her first U.S. trip since she was put under house arrest in 1990. (Associated Press)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi begins landmark U.S. visit

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in Washington, where she will receive the Congressional Gold Medal and meet with officials. (Associated Press)

Nobel activist to warn U.S. of too much faith in Myanmar

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

This July 21, 2012 photo shows a typical house in the Akha hill tribe village that is home to Akha Hill guest house. Perched at the head of a curving valley on the slopes of Doi Hang mountain, most of the village houses are still made of traditional bamboo, raised on stilts with covered outdoor platforms. But a few concrete houses have appeared, and even a handful of satellite dishes poking from the thatched rooftops. (Associated Press)

Lost among the hill tribes of northern Thailand

By Brian Carovillano - Associated Press

Customers buy local weekly journals at a roadside shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar government ends direct media censorship

By Yadana Htun - Associated Press

Customers look over local weekly journals at a shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, the day the government abolished direct censorship of the media. The move allows some freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation, but it does not leave reporters and editors free from reprisals. (Associated Press)

Myanmar taking another step toward a freer press

By Yadana Htun - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders, talk to reporters following a political strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. He is joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., far left, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress extends sanctions on Myanmar

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

World Bank set to help Myanmar

By Aye Aye Win - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (Associated Press)

Democrats fume after Coburn stops spending bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner (third from right) talks with Myanmar Minister of Finance Hla Tun (right) and government officials from Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore during a meeting with Association of Southeast Asian nations finance ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu in November 2011. Myanmar appeals to U.S. commercial ventures. (Associated Press)

Promise, peril for U.S. companies in Myanmar

By Sarah Freishtat - The Washington Times