Myanmar President Thein Sein told parliament Wednesday that the country’s first vice president has resigned, a move analysts say could begin a broader reshuffle that may appoint more reformers to Myanmar’s cabinet. (more…)

Myanmar’s parliament reconvened Wednesday for what is expected to be an important session, but its best-known member, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was absent because she was busy with other work. (more…)

The Kachin Independence Army has captured more than 30 Burmese Army prisoners of war and deserters as fighting heats up in the year long conflict. (more…)

A Yunnan Province border official has denied that China has forced Kachin displaced refugees to return to a dangerous region of civil war in their country. (more…)

The leading local partner in the Dawei port and industrial complex in Myanmar being led by Thailand’s Italian-Thai Development Pcl said on Wednesday he was pulling out of the project, adding to doubts about its viability. (more…)

Singapore bed linen maker Aussino Group has appointed a financial adviser to facilitate a proposed S$60 million ($47.38 million) reverse takeover by a Myanmar group linked to a businessman on a U.S. blacklist, according to three sources familiar with the firm. (more…)

Red Cross of Myanmar, Denmark and Britain signed a cooperation agreement here Thursday to launch a five-year program (July 2012-June 2017). (more…)

The head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday to help end violence against the Muslim Rohingya community in her country. (more…)

International figures including Muhammad Ali and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi are among the candidates that have been considered by London 2012 to play a part in the opening ceremony of the Games and the final stages of the Olympic flame’s journey into the stadium. (more…)

Myanmar’s leaders have surprised observers around the world with changes over the past year, but human-rights groups and investors want economic and political overhauls. The WSJ’s Jake Lee talks with Southeast Asia Bureau Chief Patrick Barta. (more…)

By now the story has been told countless times in the wake of the recent rioting in western Burma where tensions between the areas’ Rohingyas and Arakanese communities boiled over last month.  People were killed, houses destroyed, thousands were displaced and boatloads of Rohingyas crossing into Bangladesh were turned away. (more…)

In a divided country racked by ethnic violence and edging toward reform, one of the most stubborn battles may be a war of words: Is it Burma or is it Myanmar? (more…)

Myanmar’s prolonged isolation and economic stagnation left a mark on almost every sector the country needs to prosper — from energy and transport to agriculture, education and health. So where to begin? (more…)

Evidence suggests Myanmar’s military has participated in abuses against stateless Muslim Rohingyas following June’s communal violence in western Myanmar, a report from a rights group said this week. (more…)

The Burmese authorities should immediately and unconditionally free all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said as 80 inmates, including some 24 political prisoners and 34 foreigners, were released from prison on Tuesday. (more…)

New York – Burmese security forces have responded to sectarian violence in northern Arakan State with mass arrests and unlawful force against the Rohingya Muslim population, Human Rights Watch said today. Local police, the military, and a border security force known as Nasaka have committed numerous abuses in predominantly Muslim townships while combating the violence between the Rohingya and ethnic Arakan, who are predominantly Buddhist, that broke out in early June 2012. (more…)