India is moving quickly to cement new trade and diplomatic ties with Myanmar during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit this week. (more…)

The Kachin Independence Organisation are accusing the Burmese army of participating in ethnic cleansing and have asked the United Nations to intervene in the conflict, as the international body prepares to deliver aid to refugees in the northern most state. (more…)

Week-long protests against electricity shortages continued across Rangoon on Monday evening despite state-run media reporting that three gas-powered turbines will soon arrive to address the problem. (more…)

Yangon – Five days of street protests over chronic power shortages present Myanmar’s reformist government with a headache and an opportunity. (more…)

A growing number of Kachin women are being trafficked over the Chinese border as criminal networks target vulnerable populations uprooted by the ongoing civil conflict, humanitarian groups have warned. (more…)

PHNOM PENH : The army will propose the government hold talks with Myanmar about returning almost 200,000 Myanmar refugees living in Thailand. (more…)

Industry Minister Soe Thane says new investment rules will be ready soon, and while near-term focus will be on building a base of small-scale industries, stalled Dawei megaproject is still viable. (more…)

Business travelers, aid workers and others on official business in Burma will soon be able to receive “one-minute” visas on arrival, according to a report by state-run media on Monday. (more…)

YANGON — Starved of funds and medicine during decades of military rule, doctors at a clinic in Yangon offer their usual advice to one of Myanmar’s newest HIV patients — come back when you’re sicker. (more…)

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Thailand late Tuesday on her first overseas trip from Myanmar in more than two decades, an AFP reporter said. (more…)

Hkun Tun Oo, whose party the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) won statewide in the 1990 elections, has been selected as a recipient of the US congressional Democracy Award, according to SNLD sources. (more…)

When Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the National League of Democracy receives her Nobel Peace Prize and gives an address to the House of Commons in England next month, it will mark an historic moment for Southeast Asia.
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The monopoly of Myanmar’s communication and information technology should be eased to allow for economic development, say international investors, local activists and businesspersons. (more…)