Suu Kyi to address Parliament in UK
| The rare honour was announced as David Cameron prepared to brief G8 leaders, meeting in Camp David, after his visit to Burma last month when he extended the invitation for her to come to the UK. | A...
Blast hits power grid in Myanmar
| Yangon, May 19 (IANS) An explosion in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state hit a power grid Saturday, affecting power supply to Yangon, authorities said. | The explosion struck the 230-KV power g...
UN chief urges Myanmar rebels to join peace proces
Yangon: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Myanmarese rebels to end violence and join a government-led peace process. | About 50,000 have been displaced in the violence in Kachin state since J...
Myanmar 'slaves' rescued in Thailand
Yangon: Nearly 150 Myanmar migrant workers locked up inside a shrimp factory near Bangkok have been rescued by Thai police. | Kyaw Thaung, a spokesperson for the Burmese Association in Thailand (BAT),...
China dissident 'at Beijing airport'
| Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has told journalists he is at Beijing's international airport and awaiting departure to the United States. | "I'm at the airport. I do not have a passport. I ...
Mongolia Wrestles With Dinosaurs, NATO and Politics
| Squeezed between geopolitical giants Russia and China, Mongolia has long struggled for independence and visibility. | Two events on Sunday promise to raise the global profile of the country of just ...
US firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended
| Washington/Hong Kong: The suspension of US sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state gives a green light to US firms queuing to...
Ban ki-Moon urges Myanmar rebels to join peace process
| Yangon, May 19 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Myanmarese rebels to end violence and join a government-led peace process. | About 50,000 have been displaced in the violence i...
Ban ki-Moon urges Myanmar rebels to join peace process
May 19: | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Myanmarese rebels to end violence and join a government-led peace process. | About 50,000 have been displaced in the violence in Kachin state since...
Myanmar 'slaves' rescued in Thailand
| Yangon, May 19 (IANS) Nearly 150 Myanmar migrant workers locked up inside a shrimp factory near Bangkok have been rescued by Thai police. | Kyaw Thaung, a spokesperson for the Burmese Associat...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi to address British parliament in June
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years...
Refugee Farmers Find Solace in a Floodplain
| BURLINGTON, Vt. — Unpredictability has been a life companion for Clothilde Ntahomvukiye and her fellow refugee farmers from Burundi, who were out clearing stubborn hillocks of weeds and dandel...
Burma's Suu Kyi to visit Dublin as part of Europe trip
| MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent | BURMA'S OPPOSITION leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit Ireland next month as part of her first trip abroad in 24 years. | Ms Suu Kyi is due to travel...
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi to address parliament on June visit
| Former Oxford University student who became Burmese pro-democracy leader to make first trip abroad in 24 years David Cameron met Aung San Suu Kyi on his visit to Burma in April. Photograph: Stefan R...
Myanmar forms peace group to deal with ethnic insurgents
Yangon: A high-level peace group headed by President U Thein Sein has been formed in Myanmar to carry out peace negotiations with ethnic armed groups in the country, the presidential office website sa...
US-Myanmar ties not at expense of China
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Myanmar counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin have said normalisation of their ties is not at the expense of China. | "The United States does not expec...
Last loco to Myanmar flagged off
The last metre gauge diesel locomotive to Myanmar with additional features rolled out from the Golden Rock Railway Workshop here on Friday. | The workshop had bagged an order from the RITES, a Governm...
Suu Kyi to visit Ireland next month
| MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent | Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit Ireland next month during her first trip abroad in 24 years, The Irish Times has learned. | ...
Diplomats say UN experts report NKorea continues violating sanctions, citing Syria and Myanmar
| UNITED NATIONS - Security Council diplomats say an expert panel has reported that North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions, citing possible attempts to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar and ille...
Diplomats say UN experts report NKorea continues violating sanctions, citing Syria and Myanmar
| UNITED NATIONS — Security Council diplomats say an expert panel has reported that North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions, citing possible attempts to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar an...
Democracy Lab Weekly Brief, May 18, 2012
| Can Burma make headway towards democracy when it's still saddled with an authoritarian constitution? Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo argue that countries in comparable situations have managed to...
