It was here that Aung San edited a magazine before leading an independence movement.
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Aung San played an instrumental role in bringing about the country's independence from British colonial rule.
He recently travelled to India, while the head of the army, Min Aung Hlaing, visited Vietnam.
But Ms Aung San Suu Kyi said the NLD had agreed to the oath.
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Mrs Clinton has often referred to Aung Sang Suu Kyi as a personal inspiration.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party said it would participate in Myanmar's forthcoming by-elections.
Aung San Suu Kyi has given a cautious welcome to the moves, but says more progress is needed.
Other questions focused on lorry road user charging, the EU-Russia pact, and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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In what country did activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi win a seat in parliament?
Its Railways Minister Aung Min has been making the running on the talks.
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Previous recipients of the award include Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi will try to win a seat in Burma's parliament in forthcoming by-elections, her party has confirmed.
Aung San was president of the All Burma Students' Union before joining the Dohbama Asiayone, a group of young nationalists.
Obama then met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the lakeside home where she spent years under house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, is to start printing its own daily newspaper later this month.
Burmese opposition leader and member of parliament Aung San Suu Kyi is making her first visit to India in almost 40 years.
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But the one issue Aung San Suu Kyi said was more important than any other was the need for the rule of law.
For example, Aung San Suu Kyi, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Sheikh Hasina each wrote about their fathers, Aung San, Sukarno and Mujibur Rahman respectively.
Aung Kyi will meet Saturday with members of the council, which is drafting a separate press law that it says will protect journalists' rights.
It has been a homecoming of sorts for Aung San Suu Kyi to the country where she spent many formative years as a young girl.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has visited the Delhi college from which she graduated with a degree in politics nearly 50 years ago.
"Muslim people who live near the burned buildings and shops are moving to other places, " San Zar Ni Aung, a Muslim resident of Lashio, said Wednesday.
Yet in the summer of 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi declared in the first of her Reith Lectures that she wanted foreign travellers to visit Burma.
Burma is due to hold by-elections in April which will be contested for the first time by the opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Earlier this month, Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament in a by-election which saw her party win 43 out of the 45 seats it contested.
Her popularity also comes in part from being the daughter of General Aung San, a hero of Burma's campaign for independence from British rule in the 1940s.
The Freedom of Edinburgh award is only held by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Sean Connery, Nelson Mandela and Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.
The gala, which takes place in the Italian capital until 4 November, will open with Luc Besson's The Lady, a biopic of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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With the November release from house arrest of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, activist groups have called an end to a 15-year tourism boycott of the military-ruled country.
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