Illegal Burmese migrants arrested in western Thailand

Thailand is home to up to three million Burmese, many of whom work in dangerous industries such as fisheries (Reuters) By NANG MYA NADI Ove...

Myanmar must avert further humanitarian disaster as cyclone approaches

More than 140,000 individuals – mostly from the Rohingya Muslim minority – are currently displaced across Rakhine state in Myanmar. Heavy m...

Global Beer Brands Make Move to Myanmar

Heineken, Carlsberg Seek Growth in Asian Nation As Sanctions End By: E.J. Schultz Bio First came the cola. Now comes the beer. Heineken anno...

How Cyclone Mahasen will affect India

A boy stands outside an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp for Muslims, outside Sittwe. Photo: Reuters Northeast India to get rain; co...

Myanmar moves internal refugees as cyclone nears

YANGON: Myanmar on Sunday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to te...

Thein Sein to visit US 'soon'

Thein Sein, Myanmar's president. (Bloomberg photo) YANGON - Myanmar's president will soon make the first state visit to the United S...

Clashes likely to delay Myanmar-China pipeline start-u

Posted by Muhammad Iqbal YANGON: Security concerns will likely delay the first shipments of gas and oil from the Myanmar coast to China thro...

Cyclone storm 'Mahasen' weakens, likely to move towards Bangladesh-Myanmar

Under its impact, rain or thundershower is expected occur at a few places over Odisha during the next 24 hours.  The cyclonic storm 'Mah...

Refugees Face Uncertain Future as Myanmar Opens

By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand May 12, 2013 (AP) Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has k...

Cyclone Mahasen losing steam as it tracks across Bay

Thiruvananthapuram, May 12: The Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre (RSMC) at New Delhi has hinted that tropical cyclone Mahasen in t...

Suu Kyi Pushes Constitutional Changes Before 2015

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a lecture at the University of Tokyo, April 17, 2013. Photo: RFA Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ...

Tropical Cyclone Targets India, Bangladesh, Myanmar

By Eric Leister, Meteorologist A large zone of unsettled weather over the Indian Ocean has resulted in the formation of two tropical cyclone...

Burmese army seizes Shan rebel outpost after latest attack

Shan rebels carry out a military drill at their headquarters in Loi Taileng, February 2011 (Francis Wade) By NANG MYA NADI The Shan State A...

Most fish sauces have 'unsafe' levels of preservatives

By Pongphon Sarnsamak The Nation/Asia News Network Friday, May 10, 2013 The Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) surveyed the quality of fis...

Seven shot dead over Myanmar bomb plot in Indonesia

VIDEO: Myanmar embassy plot foiled in Jakarta From: AFP INDONESIAN police have shot dead seven terror suspects in raids over the past two da...