Suu Kyi has expressed an interest in using the micro-blogging site Twitter or the social network Facebook to reach young people. -- PHOTO: AFP
YANGON - MYANMAR democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has finally had Internet access installed at home after her years of isolation were brought to an end two months ago, an aide said on Friday.
Her security chief Win Htein told AFP that the opposition leader was 'glad' to be able to go online at her lakeside mansion in Yangon and would use the technology to contact her network of supporters.
'But she cannot use the Internet now as she is not feeling well and is coughing,' he said. It is believed that the Nobel laureate has never before surfed the web.
Suu Kyi, who was locked up for seven straight years with no telephone or Internet until November, has expressed an interest in using the micro-blogging site Twitter or the social network Facebook to reach young people.
She applied to a private company for Internet access soon after she was released, but the request was transferred to Yatanarpon Teleport, a firm run by the country's military authorities.
Citizens of Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962, must obtain the authorities' permission to be able to go online at home and there is a thriving black market for facilities under assumed identities. -- AFP
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