Mizzima
2012-10-19
Woodside Petroleum and Daewoo International Corp. have reached a deal to explore for oil and gas in Burma, giving the Australian firm a foot in the...
2012-10-19
The controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northwestern Burma will continue to operate despite a growing national outcry against the project,...
2012-10-19
Max Manufacturing Company of Burma will increase its daily cement production capacity from 500 tonnes now to 2,600 tonnes by the end of next year and...
2012-10-19
Burma’s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin will arrive in New Zealand on Monday to further economic and diplomatic ties.
2012-10-19
A tourist ferry carrying 21 Britons and two South Africans set off on Wednesday from southwest China for Thailand, marking the resumption of tourist...
2012-10-19
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in Naypyitaw on Wednesday on an official visit at the same time as a major US human rights...
2012-10-19
After human right talks with Burma this week, the US said it now has an “open channel” to discuss political prisoners and other sensitive subjects as...
2012-10-19
Efforts of Burma’s government-appointed commission to investigate the recent communal violence in Rakhine State have been blocked by local community...
2012-10-17
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) has announced a subsidiary has opened a branch office in Burma to work with local carriers to provide ICT...
2012-10-17
A prestigious peace award has honored Aung San Suu Kyi for her decades-long leadership of Burma’s pro-democracy movement.
2012-10-17
Burma’s President Thein Sein was re-elected as chairman of the ruling state party but he named a fellow reformer Shwe Mann, the speaker of the Lower...
2012-10-17
The top-level US delegation now in Burma is sending a signal that cooperation between US and Burma’s military can only come if the country makes...
2012-10-16
Amid controversy over leadership selection in some local branches of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma’s largest opposition party has...
2012-10-16
Australian officials said on Monday they would advise Burma on elections and government structures and support its building an effective foreign...
2012-10-16
Officials of the Monywa copper mine project in Burma’s northwestern Sagaing region said work at the protest-beleaguered mine is being carried out...