Suu Kyi suspends campaign after falling ill

Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has suspended her campaigning a week ahead of Burma’s by-elections after falling ill.

A spokesman for her National League for Democracy party, Kyi Toe, said that Suu Kyi’s physician advised her to rest after she fell ill with vomiting while campaigning in the south. The doctor said her ill health was due to exhaustion and hot weather.

Suu Kyi has travelled thousands of miles by car, plane and boat to campaign around the country for her party. She herself is running in a constituency south of Yangon.