WASHINGTON (AP): The United States eased financial sanctions against Myanmar on Tuesday to enable private U.S.-based groups to do charity work in the impoverished country.
The announcement by the Treasury Department is the first of a series of rewards from Washington in response to the military-dominated country's by-elections this month that were swept by the opposition party of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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