After Chinese Arms Allegations, UWSA Shows Off ‘Thai’ Military Hardware

A pictured published in the state-run Myanma Ahlin on Tuesday purportedly shows a helicopter purchased by the United Wa State Army (UWSA). (...

Man Sues Chinese Hospital Over Forced Psychiatric Admission

A file photo of a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Fuzhou receiving a blood transfusion with bound feet. AFP Photo A resident of the so...

China Sends Aid to North Korea Despite Sanctions

An undated picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on April 24, 2013 shows Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju (C) inspecting a farm in S...

88 Generation Students Hold Talks With US, China

Burmese activist Min Ko Naing speaks to supporters shortly after his release from prison, Jan. 14, 2012. AFP A key reform group in Burma ha...

Nearly 200 killed in Myanmar boat accident

Thousands of people have been moved from low-lying camps to safer shelter ahead of Cyclone Mahasen [AFP] Vessels with 200 Rohingya Muslims e...

What North Korea could learn from Myanmar

Technicians check the North Korean satellite launch vehicle Unha-3 on the launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Center on April 8. By ...

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...