China Suu Kyi Visit Highlights Drift From Dictatorship

SHANGHAI — Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in China on Wednesday, on her first visit to one of the closest backers of the military regime that previously held her under house arrest for many years. She is accompanied by two other members of her National League for Democracy…

Yangon (dpa) – Members of Myanmar’s older generation remember the death of Aung San the way Americans over a certain age can recall where they were when US President John F Kennedy was shot. Aung San was the founder of the Myanmar Army, and after World War II became a leader of the struggle for independence…