ETHNIC NATIONALITIES COUNCIL

BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Top legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday vowed to further parliamentary exchanges with Myanmar. Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made the pledge during a meeting with Myanmar's Speaker of the House of Representatives Thura U Shwe Mann in Beijing.

DAWEI, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for changes to the military-drafted constitution, on her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country's political system last year and announcing plans to run for parliament. Thousands of supporters lined the roads, many shouting "Long live mother Suu," as her motorcade wound through the rural coastal region of Dawei, about 615 km (380 miles) south of her home city, Yangon, the main business centre.

YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi is playing an increasingly important role in Myanmar, helping shore up a fragile alliance of former junta generals whose recent reforms have amazed observers, analysts say. After half a century of total military domination, the Southeast Asian nation held widely-criticised elections in 2010 after ordering some of its members to shed their army uniforms to lead a "civilian" government.

Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi could be given a job in Myanmar's nominally civilian government if she is elected to parliament in April by-elections, a presidential adviser said today. The Nobel laureate, who could be propelled into a parliament still largely composed of the military and ruling army-backed party, would be given a "suitable" position, Nay Zin Latt told.