Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed on Friday U.S. engagement with Myanmar, saying she hoped it would set her long-isolated country on the road to democracy, according to Reuters.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a final (...)
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will hold talks with President Thein Sein on Friday, a government source said, the first meeting between the two and the latest olive branch from the new, nominally civilian administration, Reuters reported.
Suu Kyi, a (...)
Myanmar's president says the strengthening local currency is hurting the economy and garment factories face closure if the U.S. dollar continues to weaken, according to AP.
President Thein Sein in a speech broadcast Thursday said the dollar has (...)
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the
country's newly elected government have agreed to "avoid conflicts,"
Suu Kyi said in a joint statement with a government representative, according to dpa.
"We will avoid conflicts and will (...)
Four bomb blasts were reported Friday in central
Myanmar's Mandalay Division, leaving at least four people injured,
officials said, according to dpa.
Officials in the capital, Naypyitaw, 350 kilometres north of
Yangon, confirmed an explosion (...)
Awwal 01, 1432 / April 05, 2011, SPA -- Cholera has broken out in quake-hit areas in Shan state, Myanmar's northeast, affecting 96 people.
Of them, 48 people were in serious condition due to consumption of unclean drinking water and unhygienic (...)
Akhir 20, 1432 H/ March 25, 2011, SPA -- A magnitude-6.8 earthquake killed at least 27 people in north-east Myanmar and one in Thailand, officials said Friday.
According to dpa, at least 27 people died and 50 were injured in Tali, the village (...)
Akhir 19, 1432 H/March 24, 2011, SPA -- A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Myanmar
late Thursday, with the shocks being felt in Yangon and the new
capital of Naypyitaw, but no casualties were reported, dpa quoted sources as saying.
The (...)
Awwal 12, 1432 H/Feb 15, 2011, SPA -- From almost the moment Le Yati Min was born, her mother knew the girl had a little something extra.
«I asked the nurses whether my kid was born complete with hands and legs,» AP cited the girl's mother as (...)
Awwal 01, 1432, Feb 04, 2011, SPA -- Myanmar's newly elected parliament named a key figure in the long-ruling military junta as president Friday, ensuring that the first civilian government in decades will be dominated by the army that has brutally (...)
Myanmar's new parliament elected Thein Sein, prime minister in the outgoing military junta, as one of three vice presidents Thursday, making him a likely contender for president in the new military-dominated government, AP reported.
The army has (...)
President and Chairman of State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Than Shwe received here yesterday Saudi ambassador to Myanmar Talal Mohammad Sabri Abdulsalam who presented a copy of his credentials as ambassador to (...)
A total of 181 people died of dengue fever in Myanmar's Yangon region alone in the past five years out of 19,000 such cases occurring in the region during the half decade, the local Flower News reported Sunday.
The five-year period ran from 2005 (...)
Myanmar's defence minister and other top generals resigned their junta and military posts Friday to contest the upcoming polls as civilians, officials said, according to dpa.
General Thura Shwe Mann, the current defence minister, has retired from (...)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met Thursday with
Myanmar's junta chief and witnessed the signing of 15 cooperation
agreements with the pariah state, according to dpa.
Wen met with junta head Senior General Than Shwe in Naypyitaw,
Myanmar's (...)
A faction of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition declared Friday it will form its own political party to contest Myanmar's first elections in two decades, a day after the democracy icon's party disbanded to boycott the vote it says will be flawed, (...)
A series of bombs exploded at a hydropower project site in northern Myanmar on Saturday. There was no immediate report of casualties or damage, according to Reuters.
"We don't have any further details about it as yet," said a government official (...)
A Chinese-made F-7 jet fighter crashed Friday at Yangon International Airport, killing the pilot, dpa quoted witnesses as saying.
The accident occurred as the plane was landing, an official at the airport who witnessed the crash said.
The (...)
At least 50 people are believed to have drowned in Myanmar when a wooden ferry packed with 178 people collided with a tugboat on a river in the southern Irrawaddy delta region, officials said on Tuesday.
Thirty-one bodies were found after the (...)
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 14 years.
Campbell, the top U.S. (...)
US Senator Jim Webb, on a mission to "re-engage"
Washington in South-East Asia, met Myanmar's military supremo as well
as detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday, government
officials said, according to dpa.
Webb also negotiated the (...)
Myanmar has discovered a new large coal mine in northern part of the country's Shan state and mining of the mineral will start with a local private company soon, Xinhua quoted the local weekly 7-Day News as reporting today.
The newly-found coal (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is planning to visit Myanmar at the end of this year to hold talks on the country's political problems, AP quoted the main opposition party as saying Wednesday.
National League for Democracy party spokesman Nyan (...)
Provision of the Saudi humanitarian aid continued here today with the delivery of additional quantities of tents, food stuffs, blankets, medicines, ambulances, rescue tools, electric generators and other aid.
The aid delivered here today is an (...)
A United Nations rapporteur arrived in Yangon Sunday to discuss human-rights concerns, DPA quoted diplomatic officials as saying.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, on his first mission to look at human rights in the country, is scheduled to be in Myanmar until (...)
