The commander of the Burmese Army’s Northern Regional Military Command, Brig-Gen Zeyar Aung, told people in Pangwa, Kachin State, not to worry about the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) causing problems because his troops will wipe them out. (more…)

Burmese prodemocracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi pledged on Wednesday to help revive a banned national student rights organization whose leaders fueled a 1988 revolt that was brutally suppressed by the then military junta, according to the group’s spokesperson. (more…)

The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, who finished second in 1990 general elections, have been approved by Union Election Commission to register as a new party. (more…)

Striking employees at an artificial hair factory in Rangoon’s Industrial Zone 4 were granted their demands for a wage hike as well as increased workers’ rights on Thursday. (more…)

For anyone planning a trip to Yangon soon – start saving. (more…)

Brussels – Myanmar lawmakers paid the country’s first ever visit to the European parliament on Thursday in a new sign of growing warmth between the European Union and the South-east Asian nation. (more…)

Geneva – Switzerland on Wednesday became the latest country to ease sanctions against Myanmar in a show of support for sweeping reforms since the end of direct army rule last year. (more…)

PRO-DEMOCRACY leader Aung San Suu Kyi has taken her seat in Burma’s parliament, following a landslide victory for her party in April 1 by-elections. Then, on Sunday, Burmese media reported that the alleged hardline vice-president, ex-general Tin Aung Myint Oo, had resigned “for health reasons”. (more…)

It seems that the pressure within the Burma had built up to such a degree that the Junta was forced to look for a way to open up, if they were to survive, while at the same time, the regional and international environments have changed and most of the neighbouring countries are concentrating more on accelerating their economic growth and building the region as a community. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi has finally been allowed to win. Her by-election victory in Burma last month brought home the scale of the political earthquake taking place there after half a century of military rule. The government is reforming at an unprecedented pace, land prices are rising and tourists are preparing their itineraries. (more…)

Burma has never been an easy place to conduct a head count. Dogged by protracted conflicts and populated by communities wary of outsiders, census-takers have had their work cut out in building an accurate dataset of a country rich in demographic diversity, but which for decades has largely been invisible to the world. (more…)