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The United States suspends its diplomatic trade engagement with Myanmar, which sought to help integrate the country into the global economy, following an escalation in violence perpetrated by the Burmese military against anti-coup protesters, until what Katherine Tai says would be "the return of a democratically elected government."
2021-03-29

The United States imposes sanctions against several military officials in Myanmar for its suppression of the protests in response to the coup.
2021-03-22

Myanmar reports the country's first confirmed cases of COVID-19, the patients are a 36-year-old who had travelled back from the United States and a 26-year-old returning from the United Kingdom. Panic buying is reported in the country's largest city, Yangon.
2020-03-23

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calls the persecution of Rohingya Muslims by the government of Myanmar an "ethnic cleansing" and announces that the United States will consider targeted sanctions against Myanmar.
2017-11-22

The United States contemplates reimposing sanctions against Myanmar over alleged abuses against the Rohingya people.
2017-11-4

The United States extends the restrictions deadline for refugees.
2017-07-5

Myanmar tops the 2015 Charities Aid Foundation's World Giving Index which measures each country's charitable behavior. Individuals indicate whether they have donated money, volunteered, or helped a stranger in the past month. The United States, which tied with Myanmar last year, is second, followed by New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Ireland, and Malaysia.
2015-11-10

Myanmar state television announces that President Thein Sein will make the first official visit to the United States, the first by a leader of that country in nearly fifty years.
2013-05-13

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi begins a 17-day tour of the United States in a bid to help ease economic sanctions on Myanmar.
2012-09-17

ASEAN formally invites Russia and the United States to attend the East Asia Summit and urges Myanmar to hold free and fair elections in a foreign ministers meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
2010-07-20