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Suu Kyi returns home after 1st trip in 24 years
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi completed her first trip out of Myanmar in 24 years on Sunday, a six-day visit to Thailand that highlighted the Nobel laureate's new freedom to explore the world — and to return home.Suu Kyi smiled broadly as she walked through Yangon's airport, escorted by senior officials from her opposition party. She waved to passengers and energetically told reporters

ASEAN integration on track: WEF
Bangkok, Thailand, June 1 (IBNS) Work on creating an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 is progressing as planned, but there are risks and they must be recognized and managed, participants at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia in Bangkok were told on Friday.

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Increased connectivity brings risk: Leaders
Bangkok, Thailand, June 1 (IBNS) For East Asia, deepening and broadening connectivity within the region and with the global economy will be a source of both enormous opportunities as well as greater risk, business and civil society leaders said in the closing session of the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia.

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Turkey PM to open WEF on Middle East
Istanbul, Turkey, June 1 (IBNS) The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia will open next week in Istanbul from 4 to 6 June.

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Suu Kyi calls on investors to help Myanmar
Bangkok, Thailand, June 1 (IBNS) In a session with participants at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu Constituent in Myanmar, challenged investors to be socially responsible and to ensure that their investments help her country to eradicate corruption and inequality.

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WEF discusses empowering women in East Asia
Bangkok, Thailand, June 1 (IBNS) Despite a strong record of economic growth in recent years, East Asia still lags as a region in terms of gender equality, a panel discussion on "Asian Women as the Way Forward" concluded at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia.

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