BBC-Burmese opposition leader's hea

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Saturday, August 22, 1998 Published at 09:58 GMT 10:58 UK 

Burmese opposition leader's health "improving" 

The health of Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is said to be
improving as she enters her eleventh day of a standoff with the ruling
Burmese military authoirties. 

Ms Suu Kyi and three of her party colleagues from the National League for
Democracy are encamped in a van outside Rangoon. 

They have been stopped by the government from leaving the city to visit
supporters. 

Meanwhile the government has still not responded to an announcement by the
NLD that they're to hold a parliamentary gathering of Burma's main ethnic
groups within the next few days. 

About thirty exiled Burmese students in Thailand say they have begun a
hunger strike to demand that the military allow the meeting to take place. 



>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service