Paying fulsome tributes, the University of Oxford on Wednesday honoured Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting her with an honorary doctorate in Civil Law in a traditional ceremony.


The ceremony called Encaenia honoured eight distinguished individuals, including Suu Kyi, who was described by the Chancellor as star shining in the east, the light of her countrymen.


The oration for Suu Kyi, 67, hailed her achievements and welcomed her back to Oxford where she studied, married and lived for several years, before returning to Myanmar to care for her ailing mother in 1988, never to return, until Tuesday.