Yangon – Police in Myanmar have arrested 30 people in connection with the vigilante killing of 10 Muslims that helped spark days of sectarian violence in Rakhine state last month in which at least 80 people were killed and tens of thousands were displaced. (more…)

Yangon — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has decided not to attend a new session of parliament this week to give herself time to recover from a gruelling European tour, her party said Sunday. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — The dormitories are empty, the once charming bungalows of professors overgrown with vines and weeds. Only grass grows where the Student Union building stood before soldiers obliterated it with dynamite. (more…)

Yangon – It’s been six months since activist Aung Min Naing was freed from jail in Myanmar under a mass amnesty of political prisoners which prompted scenes of wild jubilation. But life since then has been far from easy. (more…)

Geneva — The United Nations and several humanitarian agencies that operate in Myanmar said Thursday that a number of their staff members had been detained by the government in a part of the country where sectarian violence erupted this month, and that they were trying to secure their release. (more…)

Dhaka — Myanmar President Thein Sein has postponed his mid-July visit to Dhaka due to sectarian violence in the country’s western Rakhine state, a Bangladesh foreign ministry official said Sunday. (more…)

Myitkyina, Myanmar: Poring over pictures of bullet-riddled bodies and charred villages, peace mediators say Myanmar’s far north is writhing in the grip of a “resource war” with no end in sight. (more…)

OVER the past two months – since employees at the Tai Yi shoe factory in Hlaing Tharyar township stopped work on May 2 – a strike has occurred every few days in Yangon’s industrial zones. A few have captured a lot of attention, and many have passed with little notice, the workers’ demands quickly resolved. (more…)

Despite its huge economic potential in key industries like energy and agriculture, Myanmar’s development will be a “generational process” and the country will take decades to catch up to other more successful Southeast Asian economies, said Steve Groff, a vice-president at the Asian Development Bank. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — Myanmar called upon local and foreign investors Monday to fund construction of a second airport to serve the country’s largest city, Yangon, as it prepares for an influx of tourists in the wake of political reforms. (more…)

Washington — The Senate has confirmed the appointment of the first U.S. ambassador to Myanmar in 22 years. Derek Mitchell has served as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to military-dominated Myanmar since August to encourage democratic reforms. (more…)

Chief Justice John Roberts last week did something that, in polarized Washington, may turn out to be more important than saving Obamacare. (more…)

For more than two decades, Burma’s former ruling generals relied heavily on the country’s energy sector to keep themselves in power. Even after a year of much-heralded reforms, however, their grip on this key source of national revenue remains intact. This has to change—and it’s up to would-be foreign investors to ensure that it does. (more…)

The Section (2), Chapter (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar states that “The state shall be known as The Republic of the Union of Myanmar.” (more…)