Thousands attend Suu Kyi’s first rally

LOIKAW: Thousands thronged to see Aung San Suu Kyi’s first rally as the Myanmar opposition leader launched her bid for historic November elections by touring a remote eastern region seen as a stronghold of the ruling party.

Suu Kyi urged voters to think of future generations in her debut campaign speech on Thursday to a rapt audience in Kayah state, many wearing the colourful traditional dress of local ethnic groups, as her party’s first nationwide election bid in a quarter of a century gathered steam.