Today, her face smiles on magazine covers sold in the streets of the capital, Yangon.
"Right now, Yangon is a colonial treasure with no parallel in Southeast Asia, " says Thant.
He was able to get to a small village about 1.5 hours from Yangon, though.
Members of Suu Kyi's Yangon office staff were among the 262 held for questioning.
He is being represented by a lawyer selected by the U.S. Embassy in Yangon.
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The case is being tried behind closed doors inside a prison compound near Yangon.
Her car would have passed checkpoints leaving Yangon before reaching the spot where she was stopped.
Her trial is being held inside a prison compound in the city of Yangon.
And Yangon has one of the worst human rights records of any regime anywhere.
In my discussions here in Yangon, our goal is to sustain the momentum for democratization.
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On previous visits outside the capital, Yangon, the NLD leadership has faced increasing harassment.
Police block the entrance to her lakeside home in Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon.
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Rangoon is the former name of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and its economic center.
Ban Ki-moon left Yangon earlier this month without being allowed to meet Miss Suu Kyi.
Than Shwe had said Yangon was working to end hostilities with minority separatist groups.
Associated Press writer Aye Aye Win in Yangon and Jocelyn Gecker in Bangkok contributed to this report.
Ms Suu Kyi herself has just declared her candidacy for a seat on the edge of Yangon.
Naypyitaw, he paid tribute to former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant at a memorial in Yangon.
There is no hard evidence that military involvement is orchestrated from Yangon as a matter of policy.
The potentially more antsy undergraduates have been relocated to two far-off campuses, about an hour from Yangon.
They had three children, including his favorite daughter, Sandar Win, a hotelier and powerful figure in Yangon.
The same goes for Rangoon - people in general are more familiar with this name than Yangon.
"The destruction is unbelievable, " Dr. Kyi Minn of the Christian relief organization World Vision said from Yangon.
Ford has signed a deal with Burmese conglomerate Capital Diamond Star Group to open a showroom in Yangon.
Last week, the military began prosecuting Suu Kyi on allegations of subversion at a prison compound near Yangon.
Democracy activists in exile say Hla Than, 49, died Aug. 2 in a Yangon hospital from internal injuries.
He sent trusted chum, tycoon Ananda Krishnan, to Yangon to try to talk sense to leader Khin Nyunt.
The Yangon economist familiar with the change says not all of the reserves are at the central bank.
Outside of Yangon, the pace of Burmese society slows to a timeless pace -- as do Internet connections.
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