Latest Headline News From Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A photography exhibit about Aung San Suu Kyi's successful campaign for Parliament is showing just how far Myanmar has come since ending a half century of military ...

(Reuters) - The suspension of U.S. sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state gives a green light to U.S. firms queuing to scout for ...

Mizzima ) - Burma will receive US$ 144 million to implement a three-year project starting in 2013 in areas including environmental conservation, upgrading legislative and executive skills and ...

(Commentary) - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of the National League for Democracy have taken their seats in the Southeast Asian nation's parliament, a month after ...

Mizzima ) - Burma remains among the 10 most censored nations in the world despite the move from a military regime to a quasi-democratic government, according to the Committee to Protect Journalist, ...

U.S. President Barack Obama has named Derek Mitchell as the first U.S. ambassador to Myanmar in more than 20 years, in a move marking the restoration of full diplomatic ...

Mizzima ) - After receiving a letter from the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the fighting in Kachin State in Burma on Thursday. The political ...

Mizzima ) - The Chin Society of Mizoram will conduct a census this month of Chin people from Burma who reside in Mizoram State in India. A statement issued by the Aizawl-based Chin Society of ...

By Francis Wade CHIANG MAI - In northern Myanmar, government troops continue to push into the heartland of the ethnic Kachin armed opposition. Next month, the renewed conflict will mark its ...

President Barack Obama declared a new chapter in US relations with Burma, easing an investment ban and naming the first US ambassador to the former pariah state in 22 years to reward it for ...

(Rangoon, Burma) -; Burma's President Thein Sein was resting at his home in Yangon on Friday after military doctors paid a house call but an adviser said his condition was "nothing to ...

The gang-rape and prolonged torture of a woman in a church near the Kachin-China border town of Pang Wa in early May demonstrates the ongoing impunity for sexual violence enjoyed by the Burma Army, ...

The Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) on Thursday urged the US government to maintain sanctions on business activities in Burma , warning that a gold rush in the Southeast Asian ...

Burma's President Thein Sein is resting at home in Rangoon after military doctors paid a house call but gave no details about what was ailing the 67-year-old.Officials confirmed on Friday that ...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's central bank wants to weaken its newly floated currency and prevent further rises that could derail reforms to its economy, a deputy central bank ...

Rewarding the former pariah state for progress on reforms, Obama names the first US ambassador to Myanmar in two decades and announces a further easing of ...

A family that belongs to the ethnic Rohingya community from Myanmar gathered at a makeshift camp in New Delhi on May 14, 2012.  Since descending upon New Delhi more than a month ago, ...

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar's President Thein Sein was resting at his home in Yangon after military doctors paid a house call but gave no details about what was ailing the 67-year-old ...

Myanmar Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak at the State Department in Washington on ...

(Reuters) -- A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by the Communist state to Syria and ...