US to ease Myanmar sanctions

It is being hailed as another turning point in Myanmar's fledgling democratic transition.

Just days after Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's party secured a landslide victory in by-elections, Washington is to relax sanctions further.

Steps include seeking to name a US ambassador and to set up an office of the US Agency for International Development in the former Burma.

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