Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. (more…)

A Karenni women’s group says it will not accept development projects in Kayah state during the current sensitive transitional period if there isn’t local cooperation. (more…)

Myanmar is on course for a big jump in textile exports to Europe following the return of trade privileges by the European Union (EU), according to the Thailand Textile Institute. (more…)

Just over a month before Burma is due to award telecoms licenses to two foreign companies or consortia, a major international rights group has warned that online censorship and government surveillance of mobile phone users remain a serious problem in the country. (more…)

In a long-awaited White House visit, President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar’s president that he appreciates the Asian leader’s efforts to lead the country in “a long and sometimes difficult, but ultimately correct, path to follow” toward democracy. (more…)

Burmese President Thein Sein’s White House visit on Monday attests to the dramatic changes in Naypyidaw’s relationship with Washington, as links once unimaginable are discussed—including potential partnerships between the Pentagon and a Burmese military that critics say is hardly deserving. (more…)

President Thein Sein of Myanmar is in Washington this week, the first Burmese head of state to visit since the military dictator Gen. Ne Win in 1966. (more…)

Editor’s note: Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) are members of the U.S. Congress. The views expressed are their own. (more…)

It goes without saying that there are winners and losers in Burma, a country ridden with decades-long civil wars and egregious human rights abuses under the iron-fist rule of the military junta. Under such conditions, United States policy towards Burma was guided by concerns for the majority of civilians who suffered greatly. (more…)

PHR today released a report detailing the organized attacks against Muslims that took place in central Burma in late March and resulted in the killing of at least 20 children and four teachers. (more…)

Phado Saw Hla Htun, the secretary of the organizing committee for the Karen National Union (KNU), has told the media that a meeting between the KNU and a government delegation will be held in Yangon in late may to discuss a ‘Code of Conduct’ to be employed during this fragile period of ceasefire. (more…)

Foreign arrivals at Yangon airport during the first four months of the year jumped 44% year-on-year, with Europeans accounting for about one-third, reports said Sunday. (more…)

T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It’s a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting U.S. leader to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. (more…)

Activists complain that U.S. President Barack Obama, who welcomes Myanmar’s President Thein Sein to the White House this week, is embracing the former general too soon, before he’s proved his reformist bona fides. In fact, Obama is late to the party. (more…)

If you’re American and want to do business in Myanmar, there’s a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister’s son U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, and high-rolling relatives of the man who led the repressive military government for 19 years. (more…)

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) expresses displeasure with the mannerpolitical prisoners have been released on 17 May, resulting in the release of 23 prisoners, of which 19 areconfirmed to be political prisoners. While AAPP (B) welcomes the freeing of any political prisoner, thereleases mean little if political prisoners are released with restrictions attached and without a completewiping of their criminal records. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has called on UK university leaders to help her country rebuild its higher education system which she says has been virtually “destroyed” by 50 years of military rule. (more…)

The Burmese embassy in Thailand will begin issuing temporary passports for children of registered migrant workers on Thursday, according to a government spokesperson. (more…)

The US Ambassador Mitchell urged Myanmar government to take actions against the incitement perpetrators using the social network to create social crisis. (more…)

Myanmar’s rapidly evolving political landscape produced another symbolic event at the recent Armed Forces Day parade. (more…)