Obama to make historic Mayanmar trip

Fresh from his election win, Barack Obama will this month become the first US president to visit Myanmar, the White House says.
He will meet President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
It is part of a three-leg tour from 17 to 20 November that will also take in Thailand and Cambodia.
The government of Myanmar has begun implementing economic, political and other reforms, a process the Obama administration sought to encourage.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was previously the most senior US official to go to Burma when she visited in December 2011.
'Democratic transition'
Obama's Burma stop is part of a trip built around the summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations in Cambodia, which leaders from China, Japan and Russia will also attend.
In a statement, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama intended to "speak to civil society to encourage Burma's ongoing democratic transition".
The BBC's David Bamford says the trip - Obama's first foreign initiative since his re-election this week - reflects the importance that the US has placed on normalising relations with Myanmar.
This process has moved forward relatively swiftly, our correspondent adds, and it represents an opportunity for the US to have a greater stake in the region and so at least partly counter the dominant influence of China.
Reforms have been taking place in Myanmar since elections in November 2010 saw military rule replaced with a military-backed nominally civilian government.
Since then many political prisoners have been freed and censorship relaxed.
The party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from years of house arrest after the elections, has rejoined the political process after boycotting the 2010 polls. It now has a small presence in parliament after a landslide win in by-elections in April.
In response, the US has appointed a full ambassador to Burma and suspended sanctions. It is also set to ease its import ban on goods from Burma, a key part of remaining US sanctions.
Human rights groups are likely to criticise Obama's visit as premature, given that the ruling government has failed to prevent outbreaks of communal violence in the west of the country.
Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state have left more than 100,000 people - mostly members of the stateless Muslim Rohingya minority - displaced.