Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi told party colleagues she is even ready to work for democracy with the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.
The leaders of several of Burma's armed ethnic groups say Aung San Suu Kyi is the appropriate person to lead the effort towards national reconciliation.
While welcoming Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest, families of Burma's other political prisoners hold out little hope that their loved ones will soon also be free.
Supplies of relief aid to victims of Cyclone Giri in some villages of Burma's Arakan State have reportedly been cut by local authorities because they failed to vote for the regime proxy USDP.
The state-controlled censorship board in Burma, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, orders domestic media to carry limited news about Aung San Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi has been granted freedom twice before since her first imprisonment in her ancestral home in July 1989. The freedoms granted to her by the military leaders were never permanent.
(Interview) Aung San Suu Kyi confirmed yesterday that her release from house arrest on Saturday ... 
(Commentary)“People must work in unison. Only then can we achieve our goals,” the BBC quoted ... 
Khin Maung Swe, leader of the National Democratic Force, told Mizzima he was delighted pro-democracy ... 
Her release from house arrest confirmed, Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi today delivered her first scheduled ... 
Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to at least 40,000 people from the National League for Democracy headquarters ... 
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