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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong Wednesday during her historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 1955. She also visited a Buddhist temple and viewed artificial limbs at a center that provides free prosthetics to Laotians wounded by bombs left over from the Vietnam War. (Associated Press)

Clinton vows more help to clear Laos of Vietnam War bombs

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong meet at the Prime Minister's Office in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)

In historic visit, Clinton reaches out to Laos

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

U.S. set to OK investments in Myanmar

By Matthew Pennington ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

This Feb. 1978 black-and-white handout photo provided by the Kennedy Center shows, from left, Evelyn Lear as Irina Arkadina, Patricia Wells as Masha, and Evelyn Petros as Nina in Pastieriís The Seagull. American soprano Evelyn Lear, who became an opera star in Europe while singing some of the most difficult contemporary operas before returning to the United States, has died. She was 86. (AP Photo/Kennedy Center)

Taking Names: Jackie Chan to combat Myanmar child trafficking

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan, center, escorts other actors on the red carpet prior to the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Film Festival at Shanghai Grand Theater Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Jackie Chan: Actor to combat Myanmar child trafficking

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Consensus cracking on U.S. policy toward Myanmar

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Jackie Chan to combat Myanmar child trafficking

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) poses for photographers after she accepted an honorary doctorate from England's University of Oxford on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Suu Kyi finally receives honorary doctorate from Oxford

By Gregory Katz and Lefteris Pitarakis - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (right) receives a picture of her father as a birthday gift after taking part in a round table at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London on Tuesday, June 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi visits London, Oxford on U.K. tour

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) and Irish singer and activist Bono pose for the media after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum, an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners, at the Losby Gods resort near Oslo on Monday, June 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Suu Kyi walks on with U2’s ‘star-struck’ Bono

By David MacDougall and Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

The collapse of a stage hours before a Radiohead concert in a park in Toronto on Saturday killed a sound technician for the rock band. (Associated Press)

Taking Names: Suu Kyi meets up with ‘star-struck’ Bono

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Suu Kyi walks on with ‘star-struck’ Bono

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Suu Kyi meets up with U2’s ‘star-struck’ Bono

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Singapore: ASEAN could surpass EU in coming years

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

Suu Kyi walks on with U2’s `star-struck’ Bono

By DAVID MacDOUGALL and SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs a book at the Nobel Institute after a meeting with Norwegian Nobel Committee members in Oslo on Saturday, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Cathal McNaughton, Pool)

Suu Kyi to make bittersweet return to Oxford

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the Nobel ceremony at Oslo's City Hall, Norway, June 16, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi said today that winning the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest "opened up a door in my heart," and helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Daniel Sannum Lauten/POOL)

Suu Kyi accepts Nobel Prize 21 years later

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

Economy Briefs: Angry Birds plans theme park, retail outlets

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she arrives at the 101st conference of the International Labor Organization at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Exhausted Suu Kyi falls ill during news conference

By Catherine Gaschka and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Locals take refuge in a monastery compound in western Myanmar after five days of deadly sectarian strife, though residents said they were too afraid to sleep at night and faced food shortages. (Associated Press)

With heavy rain, hunger adds to misery in Myanmar strife

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