Yangon – United States Senator John McCain met Wednesday with senior Myanmar parliamentarians and ministers as part of a fact-finding mission to assess the military-run country’s political situation under its new government. (more…)

National League for Democracy (NLD) youth members from around Burma are meeting at the party’s headquarters in Rangoon, in the first such gathering since party leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest last November. (more…)

New Delhi – Eight visiting professors from foreign countries will lecture on principles of political science at the National League for Democracy (NLD) during a 9-day training in June. (more…)

A WORKSHOP on rural development and poverty alleviation in Myanmar, held in Nay Pyi Taw from May 20 to 22, highlighted ways to improve the lives of farmers, who comprise nearly 70 percent of the country’s population. (more…)

Soldiers of the Pha Muang Force seized a large quantity of drugs while on patrol along the border with Burma in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai on Tuesday night. (more…)

US senator John McCain, who will meet with government officials in Burma today, told reporters in the Thai border town of Mae Sot yesterday that more funding was needed for the lauded Mae Tao clinic, which treats thousands of Burmese each year. (more…)

Yangon — Myanmar has taken various measures to develop tourism in recent years as part of its efforts in boosting national economy, while drawing the highest number of tourist arrivals from member countries of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). (more…)

Kuala Lumpur – These four men have a message for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen and the federal government – copping a caning as a refugee in Malaysia is real. (more…)

Thailand’s call for the repatriation of more than 140,000 refugees from Myanmar is likely aimed at enhancing investment opportunities in the politically isolated country. Bangkok’s insistence that the refugees, who live in nine camps along Thailand’s western border, had become a burden came shortly after a report indicated that China had overtaken Thailand as Myanmar’s leading investor. (more…)

The love story began in cell 5 of cell block 3 in Tharawaddy Prison on a spring day in 1998. At the time, I was sharing this cell with two other political prisoners, Han Win Aung and Khin Maung Oo, or Chubby, as we called him. One day, Han Win Aung showed us a young pigeon that had fallen while learning to fly. The pigeon was covered with small bumps and clearly had scabies. (more…)

Thein Sein will have returned from Beijing feeling very satisfied with his first bilateral state visit since taking office in March, such were the friendly overtures between the two governments. But is Burma’s long-held and craftily applied neutralism at stake? (more…)

After three years in prison, Myanmar hip hop artist Zayar Thaw has been released. He is one of some 50 political prisoners released on 17 May after the government announced all prison sentences were being reduced by one year.  Around 2200 political prisoners remain behind bars in Myanmar. (more…)