President Obama shakes hands with Myanmar's President Thein Sein at the end of their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Monday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
5:36 pm ET -Thein Sein on Monday became the first Burmese president to visit the US since 1968. His meeting with President Obama is part of an opening of Myanmar to US business, but there's much more to do, a human-rights activist says.
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