Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi completed her first trip out of Myanmar in 24 years on Sunday, a six-day visit to Thailand that highlighted the Nobel laureate’s new freedom to explore the world — and to return home. (more…)

Buddhist residents in western Burma have killed at least nine Muslims as sectarian tension worsens in the region, police say. (more…)

YANGON — Cowed by decades of brutal army rule, Myanmar’s population is not used to openly voicing opinions, but as a taboo on political discussion wanes pollsters are stepping up to take the pulse of the nation. (more…)

Amid growing concerns here that the six-day visit of Myanmar’s opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, might damage relations with Myanmar’s government, Thai officials tried to rein her in on Saturday at a refugee camp on the Thai border. (more…)

In a valley in the misty hills of Mae Sot sits Thailand’s largest refugee camp — a maze of mud alleyways stuffed with bamboo and wood huts. (more…)

Thousands of miners in Mandalay division’s Yamethin township rallied after an order from the Ministry of Mining demanding the suspension of all mining operations across the country left them jobless.
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MORE than 100 households and 20 acres of farmland in Kyaukpyu township, Rakhine State, have been forced to make way for an airport expansion project with only partial compensation, a Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) official said last week. (more…)

Yangon is running out of time to save its thousands of colonial-era buildings, speakers told a heritage conference on June 1. (more…)

Burma will host the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia, the WEF executive chairman said at the close of the session. (more…)

Myanmar is open to changing the constitution to reduce the military’s role at an appropriate time, according to Defense Minister Hla Min. (more…)

The U.S. is open to improving military ties with Myanmar if the country continues to enact political and human rights reforms, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told Asian leaders Saturday. (more…)

The United Nations Development Program is getting ready to normalize aid to Myanmar this month under an initiative being taken by Japan, diplomatic sources at the world body said Friday. (more…)

There is a great concern that the premature suspension of economic sanctions on Burma gives the green light for Naypyidaw to continue to neglect serious human rights and humanitarian concerns with no encouragement to embark on true human rights reform. (more…)

Literally, that was all this government was contended, or rather able, to do. During the three-day event, Thailand’s political future was also held hostage by the Pheu Thai’s efforts to rush through the National Assembly the amnesty efforts disguised as national reconciliation bills. The ruling party could have delayed the deliberation by a few days to allow the WEF conference t to proceed without the kind of headlines grappling and confusions. While the Thai leaders kept on reiterating the political stability and great prospects to the WEF participants, their country was confronting one of the most serious crisis since 1932. (more…)

The first trip abroad in more than two decades by Myanmar’s opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, appears to have strained her crucial relationship with President U Thein Sein, who is leading the country’s transformation from military dictatorship to embryonic democracy. (more…)