Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi had a rare meeting with a minister from the ruling junta yesterday, a Myanmar official said.
The opposition leader, who is currently detained under house arrest, was in talks with Aung Kyi, the labor minister and official liaison between Suu Kyi and the government, the official said on condition of anonymity.
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi are meeting now at the state guest house. They met at about 1pm,” he said.
The pair last had a meeting in January last year, and the matters under discussion yesterday were not immediately clear.
It emerged last week that Suu Kyi, who has spent much of the last 20 years under house arrest, wrote to military regime leader Than Shwe offering suggestions about how to get Western sanctions against the country lifted.
“I don’t know clearly what they discussed but I think it will be related to her letter,” her lawyer Nyan Win said on hearing of yesterday’s meeting.
Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi met for about 45 minutes, he said.
The Nobel laureate’s easing of her stance on sanctions, after years of espousing punitive measures against the ruling generals, came as the US unveiled a major policy shift to re-engage with the junta.
Although Tuesday it held its highest-level talks with Myanmar in nearly ten years, the US has warned against lifting sanctions until the junta moves on democracy.
Archeologists in Peru on Thursday said they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, revealing the important role played by women in the oldest center of civilization in the Americas. “What has been discovered corresponds to a woman who apparently had elevated status, an elite woman,” archeologist David Palomino said. The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for more than 30 years until becoming an archeological site in the 1990s. Palomino said the carefully preserved remains, dating to 3,000BC, contained skin, part of the
‘WATER WARFARE’: A Pakistani official called India’s suspension of a 65-year-old treaty on the sharing of waters from the Indus River ‘a cowardly, illegal move’ Pakistan yesterday canceled visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for all Indian-owned or operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India, including to and from any third country. The retaliatory measures follow India’s decision to suspend visas for Pakistani nationals in the aftermath of a deadly attack by shooters in Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. The rare attack on civilians shocked and outraged India and prompted calls for action against their country’s archenemy, Pakistan. New Delhi did not publicly produce evidence connecting the attack to its neighbor, but said it had “cross-border” links to Pakistan. Pakistan denied any connection to
TRUMP EFFECT: The win capped one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history after the Conservatives had led the Liberals by more than 20 points Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday pledged to win US President Donald Trump’s trade war after winning Canada’s election and leading his Liberal Party to another term in power. Following a campaign dominated by Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, Carney promised to chart “a new path forward” in a world “fundamentally changed” by a US that is newly hostile to free trade. “We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” said Carney, who led the central banks of Canada and the UK before entering politics earlier this year. “We will win this trade war and
Armed with 4,000 eggs and a truckload of sugar and cream, French pastry chefs on Wednesday completed a 121.8m-long strawberry cake that they have claimed is the world’s longest ever made. Youssef El Gatou brought together 20 chefs to make the 1.2 tonne masterpiece that took a week to complete and was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil for residents to inspect. The effort overtook a 100.48m-long strawberry cake made in the Italian town of San Mauro Torinese in 2019. El Gatou’s cake also used 350kg of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of
RSS