President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Nov. 19. Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar, trying during a whirlwind six-hour trip to strike a balance between praising the government's progress in shaking off military rule and pressing for more reform.

Crowds wave U.S. flags as they line a street outside the home of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as Barack Obama arrives to meet her in Yangon, Nov. 19.

Employees get freshly printed copies of the New Light of Myanmar at the newspaper's office in Naypyitaw, Sept. 19, 2012. Established in 1993, the state-run New Light of Myanmar is the country's only English-language daily newspaper. It will soon face competition from private publishers and is undergoing a redesign.

Employees manually insert advertising supplements into freshly printed copies of the New Light of Myanmar at the newspaper's office in Naypyitaw, Sept. 18.

Employees manually insert advertising supplements into freshly printed copies of New Light of Myanmar at the newspaper's office in Naypyitaw, Sept, 18.

Aung San Suu Kyi, center, attends the Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house of parliament) in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on July 9, 2012.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron greets Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi in Downing Street in London on June 21, 2012. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi continued an emotional visit to Britain where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland.

Aung San Suu Kyi makes an address to both houses of parliament in Westminster Hall. Suu Kyi's address made her the fifth foreign dignitary since World War II to be accorded the rare honor.

Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an address to both Houses of Parliament, in Westminster Hall.

Aung San Suu Kyi (C) mingles with guests following her address.

A supporter of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds a portrait of her father and independence hero General Aung San ahead of her arrival at the Bangkok National Verification Centre in Samut Sakhon on the outskirts of Bangkok on May 31. Suu Kyi is on her first trip abroad in 24 years by telling an ecstatic crowd of Myanmar migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at a national verification center for Myanmar migrant workers in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on May 31.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is greeted by supporters during a visit to an immigration center in the migrant workers community outside of Bangkok on May 31, in Mahachai, Thailand. Suu Kyi hopes to help improve the rights of Myanmar nationals living in Thailand. The Thailand trip is her first trip outside of Burma in 24 years as she attends the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Previously she was either under house arrest or too fearful to leave her home country incase the government didn't allow her return.

Myanmar migrant workers take pictures with their mobile phones when Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves a center following her visit in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on May 31.

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets migrant workers from Myanmar, as she visits them in Samut Sakhon province in Thailand on Wednesday.

Burmese feed the seagulls at a jetty along the Yangon river ahead of the parliamentary elections on March 29, in Yangon, Myanmar. The upcoming vote is seen as an important vote of confidence for the country as it continues on the road to political and diplomatic reform. Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill while campaigning for Myanmar's upcoming by-elections and has currently suspended her tour days ahead of the polls according to medical advice.

A Burmese seller adjusts t-shirts supporting the vote for Aung San Suu Kyi, democracy campaigner and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, at a shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on 29 March. A new wave of reform in Myanmar is taking place ahead of parliamentary by-elections scheduled for 01 April, in which Aung San Suu Kyi will contest in the rural constituency of Kawmhu, south of Yangon. Her father General Aung San, who was assassinated by rivals in 1947, is seens on T-shirt on the right.

Commuters cross the Yangon river in Yangon on March 29. More than two decades after its stolen election win, Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party is set for a dramatic political comeback in Myanmar polls which could herald an easing of sanctions.

A Burmese monk rides a city bus as a young boy looks on ahead of the parliamentary elections on March 29, in Yangon, Myanmar. The upcoming vote is seen as an important vote of confidence for the country as it continues on the road to political and diplomatic reform. Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill while campaigning for Myanmar's upcoming by-elections and has currently suspended her tour days ahead of the polls according to medical advice.

Pendants carrying portraits of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her father General Aung San are displayed for sale at the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in Yangon on March 29. More than two decades after its stolen election win, Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party is set for a dramatic political comeback in Myanmar polls which could herald an easing of sanctions.

Residents walk past shops selling bananas in Yangon on March 29. More than two decades after its stolen election win, Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party is set for a dramatic political comeback in Myanmar polls which could herald an easing of sanctions.

Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters as she leaves the Thanlyin township election commission office on Jan. 18, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over dinner at the U.S. Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, Myanmar, Dec. 1. Clinton is traveling to the country on a two-day visit, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in more than 50 years.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Myanmar's President Thein Sein at the President's Office in Naypyitaw Dec. 1, 2011. Clinton prepared for her first substantive talks with Myanmar's new leaders on Thursday, a meeting U.S. officials hope will embolden reformers in the reclusive country where entrenched military interests still loom large.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours the Shwedegon Pagoda in Yangon, Dec. 1. Clinton offered Myanmar the first rewards for reform on Thursday, saying the United States would back more aid for the reclusive country and consider returning an ambassador after an absence of some two decades.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pours water over a Buddhist statue, as she tours the Shwedegon Pagoda, a Buddhist temple founded between the 6th and 10th centuries AD, in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 1.