Yangon: Myanmar’s main opposition party said Tuesday it expects the country’s military rulers will allow an ASEAN envoy to meet its detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his scheduled visit in March.
(more…)

Burma’s state-owned media organizations are shying away from covering current political uprisings in neighboring countries such as Thailand and the Philippines.
(more…)

Rangoon residents are being hit by severe increases in commodity prices over the past two months. The price rises are blamed on spiraling oil prices.
(more…)

Forty one people have been arrested by Burmese authorities in connection with anti-Muslim riots in Chauk, Magwe division.
(more…)

Guwahati: At least 10 soldiers from Myanmar and three Indian separatists were killed and several others from both sides were injured Tuesday in fighting inside Myanmar, an India-based rebel leader said.
(more…)

The United Nations Children’s Fund in Burma said poor hygiene was behind the deaths of many young Burmese as the country launched its 9th National Sanitation Week yesterday.
(more…)

Bangkok: Democracy in Southeast Asia is taking a beating as mass demonstrations fail to dislodge an authoritarian leader in Thailand and the Philippines reels under a state of emergency allowing arrests without warrants and military intervention.
(more…)

More than 300 operators in Phuket who need to employ foreign workers had a meeting and agreed to submit a petition to the government for rule relaxation on the foreign worker’s registration fee. (more…)

Descendents of Shan people who migrated to Thailand before Second World War have been assimilated and think themselves as 100% Thai, because they enjoy the same rights as other Thais, according a narration of Ajarn Nakorn (not his real name) a native Shan who attended Tai (Shan) Poets Day on 25 February.
(more…)

Yangon: Myanmar will take part in an international tourism exhibition to be held in Berlin, Germany, next month with the aim to absorb more world tourist arrivals in the country, sources with the Myanmar Tourism Promotion Board ( MTPB) said on Tuesday.
(more…)

February 27: Rome: The Church in Myanmar might soon have its first blessed, Father Clemente Vismara, a missionary priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
(more…)