Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), asked permission on Monday from the Burmese government and the country’s Union Election Commission (EC) to engage in talks with the rebel Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) over security conditions in the northern state. (more…)

YANGON, Myanmar — The United Nations says it has delivered aid to a rebel-controlled part of northern Myanmar for the first time in more than three months. (more…)

For years, Myanmar’s former military regime regarded Aye Chan Naing as an enemy of the state, jailing 17 of his reporters and denouncing the exiled news organization he leads as a producer of “killer broadcasts” and a threat to national security. (more…)

Jury Chai – The All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) is concerned there may be bias during the upcoming by-election advance voting because Hluttaw (Parliament) candidates and polling station workers have not been granted monitoring authority to assess the voting process,which is organized by the Village/Ward (Election) Commissions. (more…)

YANGON — Myanmar’s president urged the country to respect “the decision of the people” in key by-elections, state media said on Monday, ahead of a poll expected to sweep Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament. (more…)

YANGON — With a flamboyant wardrobe and a diva’s voice, she’s seen as Myanmar’s Lady Gaga — a rare pop star in a country where years of isolation have left musicians reliant on borrowed foreign tunes. (more…)

Myanmar is stepping up auctions of land plots in prime locations in Yangon for hotel development. (more…)

A series of drug cases revealed by Chinese authorities last week have highlighted an increase in drug trade from Burma into China. (more…)

Human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in Burma are being woefully overlooked, a group of exiled refugees have warned the US government. (more…)

YANGON, Myanmar — Until just recently, I would have said that if you didn’t want to risk getting arrested in Myanmar, you should stay away from that red and gold insignia with the fighting peacock. (more…)

In Burma, it takes real nerve to accuse the military of anything. That’s why it came as a surprise to many when the family of a Kachin woman last seen on Oct. 28 filed a lawsuit against soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 321 for her alleged abduction. The husband and father of the missing woman, 28-year-old Sumlut Roi Ja, said that the soldiers arrested all three—supposedly on suspicion of having links to the Kachin Independence Army—but only the two men managed to escape. (more…)