Obama meets Aung San Suu Kyi at home where she was kept under arrest — mashable.com

President Barack Obama gave a blunt assessment Friday of the need for further reform in Myanmar's move toward democracy, weighing into sensitive controversies over the treatment of religious minorities and a prohibition keeping opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running for president. Suu Kyi, released four years ago from more than two decades of confinement, is now a member of Myanmar's Parliament but is unable to run in next year's presidential election because of a constitutional rule barring anyone with strong allegiances to a foreign national from standing for the presidency. Suu Kyi's sons are British, as was her late husband.

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