Aung San Suu Kyi's party will Thursday submit a proposal to create a new ‘state advisor’ role for her, MPs said, giving her power to liaise between the president and parliament.
Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.
The Turkish coastguard stopped five boats carrying dozens of illegal migrants, mostly from Myanmar, who were trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, local media reported.
Aung San Suu Kyi was nominated as a cabinet minister in Myanmar's civilian government, giving the democracy veteran a formal position despite being blocked from the presidency.
Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is unlikely to take a formal position in the incoming government of her National League for Democracy (NLD), a senior official said.
Myanmar's lawmakers Tuesday elected a close aide and longtime friend of Aung San Suu Kyi to become the country's first civilian president in decades, a historic moment for the formerly junta-run nation.
A trusted aide of Aung San Suu Kyi sailed through a lower house vote to be Myanmar's presidential nominee, clearing a key hurdle to becoming the country's first civilian leader in generations.
Aung San Suu Kyi was Thursday finally ruled out of the running to become Myanmar's next president, as her party nominated one of her most loyal aides to rule the formerly junta-run nation as her proxy.
All five crew died when a Myanmar air force plane crashed in the capital Naypyidaw yesterday, bursting into flames soon after take off and smashing into a nearby field, the military said.
Four Myanmar military personnel were killed and one was seriously injured after a small air force propeller plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the capital Naypyidaw.
Aung San Suu Kyi tried yesterday to calm nerves over Myanmar’s tense political transition, with her choice of proxy presidential candidate shrouded in mystery days after her party took up its parliamentary majority.
Myanmar entered a new political era Monday as Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy MPs took their seats in parliament, carrying the hopes of a nation subjugated for decades by the military.
