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Soldier from the Kachin Independence Army (Reuters)

In Burma, answers to ethnic conflict elusive

If the Kachin Independence Army loses just one more mountain ridge, there will be little to stop government forces from taking their stronghold on the Chinese border.

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Soldiers patrol through a neighbourhood in Sittwe (file, Reuters)

Burma military admits airstrikes on rebels

Burma's military has acknowledged carrying out airstrikes against ethnic Kachin rebels in the country's north

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People gather at the wreckage of a Air Bagan Fokker-100 passenger jet that crashed in Heho (Reuters)

2 killed in Burma plane crash video

A flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Burma.

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Prime Minister John Key (left) meets Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize-winning democracy activist who spent 15 years under house arrest (AAP)

The politics of Myanmar vs Burma video

It wasn't all smiles at today’s meeting between Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and John Key.

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John Key in Cambodia (AAP)

Key makes history in Burma video

John Key is the first NZ PM to visit Burma, where he will discuss democracy and economic ties.

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Thein Sein (Reuters)

NZ jumps at Burma trade boost

Large agricultural exporters such as Fonterra will benefit from opening trade doors with Burma, John Key says.

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Myanmar is seeing freedoms previously unheard of under previous governments (Reuters)

Myanmar sees reform in cabinet shuffle

Myanmar's president has announced a major Cabinet reshuffle, a move analysts see as advancing the once-pariah nation's reformist agenda.

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Journalists in Myanmar protest against censorship (Reuters file)

Myanmar ends some media censorship

Myanmar has abolished direct censorship of the media, in the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation.

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Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (Reuters)

Myanmar frees 20 political prisoners

Myanmar's reformist government has granted amnesties for at least 20 political prisoners, but opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for the release of all of the hundreds more still behind bars.

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Myanmar to ban child soldiers

Myanmar has signed an agreement with the United Nations to ban the recruitment of child soldiers and demobilize those already serving.

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Muslim men walk near Sule Pagoda in Yangon (Reuters)

Preserving Asia's last bastion of colonial era

There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained intact, vibrant and colourful for a century and more.

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) at Oxford University (Reuters)

Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits London

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 67th birthday at the start of a week-long visit to Britain, telling hundreds of students and academics that time alone will not heal the wounds of her country.

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Women and children stand inside an unregistered Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf (Reuters)

Hatred spurred for Asia's outcasts

They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged.

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes her way through the Yangon International Airport as she leaves for her trip to Europe (Reuters)

Suu Kyi visits Europe

Twenty-four years ago Aung San Suu Kyi left Europe for what was then a military-controlled nation called Burma. She returns today the icon of Myanmar's democracy movement to a continent eager to hear from her whether the country's recent reforms truly spell the end of its cruel dictatorship.

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An ethnic Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he stands in front of a house that was burnt during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe (Reuters)

Western Myanmar: Ethnic strife continues

With residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from homes burned to ashes in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years.

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Buddhist women hold sharpened bamboo sticks as they guard their homes after fighting between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Sittwe (Reuters)

Western Myanmar: State of emergency video

Myanmar's president has declared a state of emergency in a western state where sectarian tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have unleashed deadly violence.

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White elephants at an elephant camp near Uppatasanti Pagoda in Myanmar's capital city Naypyitaw (Reuters)

Myanmar 'ripe for environmental rape'

Myanmar has avoided the rapid, often rampant development seen in Thailand and other parts of Asia because of decades of isolation brought on by harsh military rule.

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs the register as she arrives at the lower house of parliament (Reuters)

Myanmar begins new era

Aung San Suu Kyi has been sworn in as a lawmaker, capping a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to parliamentarian that will enable Myanmar's main opposition party to take its struggle for democratic rule inside the country's army-backed government for the first time.

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Reuters)

Suu Kyi is to be sworn in as MP

Aung San Suu Kyi is set to be sworn in to Myanmar's military-backed parliament today to take public office for the first time since launching her struggle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives at the Naypyitaw International Airport (Reuters)

UN chief arrives in Myanmar to promote reforms

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Myanmar to see how the world body can help promote the country's tentative steps toward democratic reform.

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