EDITORIAL: Myanmar maturity: White House meeting with general ...

President Thein Sein of Myanmar is in Washington this week, the first Burmese head of state to visit since the military dictator Gen. Ne Win in 1966. Much has changed since 1966. Fifty years of direct military rule have ended, the Nobel Peace Prize ...

3:30 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want to welcome President Thein Sein to the United States of America and to the Oval Office. Last year, I was proud to make a historic visit to Myanmar as the first U.S. President ever to visit that country.

On Monday, US President Barack Obama will receive the president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, in Washington. The visit itself represents a symbolic victory in several ways, but disagreements remain between the two countries. No head of state from Myanmar ...

12:09am BST By WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the ...

Myanmars President Thein Sein will embark on a historic visit to America on May 20 as US President Barack Obama continues to encourage reforms in that nation while it ushers in democratic changes.

President Obama's meeting with Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday the first visit to the US by a Burmese ruler since 1968 caps a flurry of recent activity between the two nations since Myanmar A recent visit to Myanmar (formerly known as ...

US President Barack Obama and visiting Myanmar counterpart Thein Sein sought possibilities to step up the two countries cooperation during their talks in Washington DC on May 20. At the talks, the two leaders also talked about ways to continue ...

The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, met with President Obama in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Thein Sein's trip is the first state visit to the U.S. by a Burmese official in nearly

Six months after President Barack Obama visited Myanmar, that country's president, Thein Sein, will visit the White House. Sein's visit to Washington, D.C. marks the first such visit by a leader from the Southeast Asian nation in nearly five decades ...