Burma creates far-reaching ‘state counselor’ post for Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma’s parliament on Tuesday created a powerful new role for governing party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s revered Nobel Laureate. Suu Kyi, 70, will now become Burma’s “state counselor,” a position that gives her wide and largely undefined powers that may violate the country’s military-drafted constitution, critics have said. The parliament’s military bloc […]











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