Carian mengenai topik President Thein Sein

The combined houses are expected to vote between three candidates next week, with a new president set to replace outgoing President Thein Sein at the end of March.

President Thein Sein, whose government has steered recent reforms, said "we would like to congratulate" Aung San Suu Kyi for "winning the people's approval."

In the past, Myanmar President, Thein Sein suggested that ethnic Rohingya residing in Myanmar for hundreds of years were forced to flee their home country, flooding to Southeast Asia.

Suu Kyi is trying to change key sections of Myanmar's constitution ahead of 2015 elections.

Myanmar President Thein Sein said Monday that all political prisoners would be freed by the end of the year.

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday urged Myanmar President Thein Sein to defend human rights as the former junta general made his first official visit to London.

Myanmar President Thein Sein flew into Washington and was holding a weekend of private meetings before talks at the White House on Monday.

Communal conflict in Myanmar "tarnished" the country's world image, President Thein Sein said Sunday.

Myanmar President Thein Sein on Thursday vowed a tough response to religious extremists after a wave of deadly Buddhist-Muslim violence in the former army-ruled nation.

Myanmar President Thein Sein will on Saturday visit the tomb of his country's last king, who was exiled a century ago, near Ratnagiri along Maharashtra's Konkan coast.