Topic: Thein Sein

YANGON, Myanmar, May 23 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prevailed on Myanmar military leader Gen. Than Shwe Friday to let foreign workers in the country for cyclone relief work.

YANGON, Myanmar, May 22 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday complained to military leaders in cyclone-hit Myanmar that foreign relief workers have been kept out.

YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Amnesty International said Friday contrary to the Myanmar military junta's claim, political arrests are ongoing, with 96 coming just in the past two months.

SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Leaders of a 10-member Southeast Asian group including Myanmar Tuesday signed a charter in Singapore that calls for setting up a human rights body.

NAY PI TAW, Myanmar, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The U.N. special envoy to Myanmar has told the ruling military junta in Nay Pi Taw it is critical political detainees be freed, a U.N. statement said.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Assets of 14 Myanmar junta leaders will be frozen under U.S. Treasury Department sanctions over the military government's violence against its citizens.