Yangon, Myanmar — North Korea’s foreign minister visited Myanmar on Thursday for high-level talks that come on the heels of a U.S. warning against any cooperation between the two nations on nuclear technology. (more…)

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led by Thein Sein, the Burmese prime minister, has outlined a wide range of tactics—including the use of cadres of hardcore criminals—aimed at achieving a landslide victory in the upcoming election. (more…)

Burmese officials have been assisting the North Korean embassy in Rangoon in seizing and destroying a biography of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, written by a Burmese. (more…)

Thailand will only return the 150,000-odd Burmese refugees sheltering in camps along the border once situation in their home country returns to normal, which will likely be after elections this year, a Thai official has said. (more…)

Bangkok – Thailand will sign on Friday an agreement to buy natural gas from the Zawtika field at the offshore Block M9 in the Gulf of Martaban in Myanmar from late 2013, Energy Minister Wannarat Charnnukul said. (more…)

Despite controversy over a border closure, the Commerce Ministry will propose to the Cabinet establishment of an economic zone at Mae Sot, Tak province, covering 5,000 rai (800 hectares) to boost border trade between Thailand and Burma. (more…)

India graciously hosted the Burmese Dictator Than Shwe this week, raising the question as to why the world’s largest democracy would welcome one of the world’s worst dictators, a man associated with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. (more…)

At the invitation of the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the Head of State of the Union of Myanmar, Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, is paying a State Visit to India from July 25- 29, 2010. (more…)

Nowadays, internal and external antigovernment elements that persist in European democratization process and European democracy norms as the one and only yardstick of democratization are very loud in their opposition against the national political leadership role the Tatmadaw will play in Myanmar’s democratization process. (more…)

KANASO NGU VILLAGE, Myanmar, July 28 (UNHCR) –  In the horrible trail of destruction left by Cyclone Nargis two years ago, Daw Pyu was left scavenging for any scrap material she could cobble together to put some sort of a roof over her head. (more…)