Burma was a happy country on Sunday, with crowds of people singing and dancing in the streets, celebrating the expected victory of the opposition National League for Democracy [...]
Burma will receive 159 international monitors for its elections that are to take place next week—the first time in the history of the once-isolated Southeast Asian nation.
Depending on how things go with April 1’s by-elections in Burma, it may nudge Western governments closer or further away from lifting sanctions on the previously hard-line [...]