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Passengers walk on a quay as they try to get on a ship to cross Yangon river in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

Official: U.S. not rushing to ease sanctions on Myanmar

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (second from left) speaks with Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo (right) and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (second from right) during a round-table meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU suspends Myanmar sanctions after reforms

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein after a group photograph at the opening ceremony of the 20th ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Myanmar leader praises elections as ‘successful’

By Jim Gomez and Sophen Cheang - Associated Press

Three national leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit — (from left) Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Myanmar President Thein Sein — join hands during a group photo at the opening ceremony of the bloc's 20th summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Southeast Asian nations, China bring rift to summit

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi hopes victory is dawn of new era

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

People cheer as election officials count votes at a polling station in the Dagon port township in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in the landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Suu Kyi leads landslide win in Myanmar vote, party says

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Mrs. Suu Kyi (left) walks out of a polling station on the outskirts of Yangon on Sunday, a day that would see her elected to her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government of Myanmar.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote

By Todd Pitman and Aye Aye Win - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Clinton congratulates Myanmar on landmark election

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Once persecuted by her government, Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is seen as having a good chance to win a seat in parliament. (Associated Press)

Myanmar’s Sunday elections could be ‘political theater’

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Book discussion: 'Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage'

Get Out: ‘Wild Bill Donovan’

By Mike Riggs - Special to The Washington Times

Doctors: Myanmar desperate for HIV and TB drugs

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Report: Myanmar desperate for HIV and TB drugs

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Shin Gambira, a dissident monk in Myanmar who helped lead an uprising against the government, is facing new legal action after being released from jail Jan. 13. (Associated Press)

Renowned dissident monk reportedly facing new charges

Associated Press

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets democracy advocate leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. chief of mission residence in Yangon, Myanmar, in December 2011. (Associated Press)

Civil war threatens reforms in Myanmar

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets democracy advocate leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. chief of mission residence in Yangon, Myanmar, in December 2011. (Associated Press)

Activists: Don’t lift sanctions on Myanmar just yet

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Michelle Yeoh calls Myanmar’s Suu Kyi her ‘hero’

By THANYARAT DOKSONE - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) waves to supporters on her arrival in Dawei, Myanmar, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Thousands of supporters in Myanmar's countryside cheered Mrs. Suu Kyi as she made a political tour ahead of parliamentary by-elections. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Suu Kyi galvanizes once-repressed Myanmar politics

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press