Tensions at the Latpadaung mountain range copper mining area swelled again as 12 farmers and their supporter were detained in Monwya, Sagaing Division, on Monday morning. (more…)

Burma’s Information Minister Aung Kyi on Sunday told journalists that he wishes their participation in drafting a new media law at a series of meetings in Rangoon. (more…)

Not only the government, but the military has been busy shuffling its commanders since the beginning of September, according to a source close to the War Office on Friday. (more…)

Some top members of the PaO National Liberation Organization (PNLO) that concluded a ceasefire agreement on 25 August at the Shan State capital Taunggyi have expressed disappointment with the news report that appeared on the Myanmar Alin daily two days later. (more…)

YANGON, Myanmar – One of Myanmar’s legendary “Thirty Comrades” who spearheaded the struggle against British colonialism has been invited back from exile by President Thein Sein. (more…)

NEW maximum rainfall records were set last week in central Myanmar as a result of a low pressure system in the Bay of Bengal, an official from the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology said.
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COX’S BAZAR  - September 9, 2012 – Rohingya Muslims, who had to flee Myanmar’s Arakan (Rakhine) state due to acts of violence, live in difficult conditions in camps in Bangladesh and the only toy their children have is a kite. (more…)

YANGON: About 1,000 textile workers marched through Myanmar’s main city Yangon on Friday to demand increased pay, in the latest show of labour activism following the end of decades of military rule. (more…)

BANGKOK – After decades of grinding poverty under successive military dictatorships, Myanmar’s rice farmers have a chance at a better future through rural reforms ushered in by the country’s quasi-civilian government. Microfinance is at the root of it. (more…)

Coca-Cola Co. said on Monday that it had shipped drinks to customers in Myanmar, its first delivery to the country in more than 60 years. (more…)

TAUNGBYONE, Burma — Burma’s AIDS epidemic mostly affects marginalized groups, such as the gay community. In a country where homosexuality remains illegal, finding and treating gay patients is a challenge for the few health workers devoted to their treatment. An annual religious event called a Nat festival, however, is one time when the gay community can network – and talk to health workers about treatment. (more…)

CHIANG RAI: Authorities have stepped up efforts against drug smuggling from Myanmar by introducing patrols along a river in Mae Sai district. (more…)

Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) chairman Jusuf Kalla is in Myanmar this weekend to oversee a humanitarian effort that he said the PMI would be in for the long-haul. (more…)

Indonesia: An Indonesian terror suspect has surrendered himself and confessed to a suicide bomb plot against Buddhists in Jakarta to protest against Myanmar’s treatment of Muslim Rohingya, police said Monday. (more…)

Thai investors should seize the opportunity to invest in Myanmar within the next three years before the Asean Economic Community is formed in 2015, according to Thailand’s ambassador. (more…)

PHUKET: Anti-Rohingya racism in Burma threatens to undermine Asean and strain relationships between the regional group’s partner nations. (more…)

After years of seemingly never-ending conflict and repression, Myanmar’s neighbours and the world are watching the changes there with interest and cautious optimism. And for the 140,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand, many stuck in camps on the border for decades, there is now some hope that they might be able to go home. (more…)

In 2009, Moe Thee Zun, a famous student leader during Burma’s 1988 pro-democracy movement and a former chairman of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, flung his shoe at a car carrying then-prime minister Thein Sein while he was attending the UN General Assembly in New York. He argued that Thein Sein and the repressive military junta ruling Burma do not represent the people of Burma — whom they brutally killed during the peaceful protests of the 2007 Saffron Revolution. (more…)