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MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - US First Lady Laura Bush, a vocal critic of Myanmar's junta, toured a refugee camp on Thursday and called on the military regime to open dialogue with the opposition.

BANGKOK, August 7, 2008 (AFP) - On the day now stamped in his memory as 8.8.88, Nyo Ohn Myint was certain that change was finally within reach in his military-ruled homeland of Myanmar.

Women and men, old and young, rich and poor, were flooding the streets, a tide of anger against the dictatorship that ran their country into the ground and condemned millions to poverty and fear.

YANGON, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Three top leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) met Wednesday with the new UN human rights envoy for Myanmar at a Yangon hotel, a party spokesman said.

BANGKOK, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush vowed to 'seek an end to tyranny' in Myanmar and called on the regime to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a copy of a speech he will deliver Thursday.

'We seek an end to tyranny in Burma,' he was to say, referring to the country by its previous name.

BANGKOK, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush vowed to 'seek an end to tyranny' in Myanmar and called on the regime to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a copy of a speech he will deliver Thursday.

'We seek an end to tyranny in Burma,' he was to say, referring to the country by its previous name.

YANGON, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - The new UN human rights envoy for Myanmar met Tuesday with some of the nation's most prominent political prisoners inside the feared Insein Prison, a spokesman said.