Mizzima
2012-05-25
A major flap has developed among presidential advisers in Burma, who held a rare press conference on Thursday to explain an ‘Open Letter’ by...
2012-05-25
The U.S. Human Rights Report 2011 included multiple sections on widespread human rights abuses in Burma, while acknowledging surprising progress in...
2012-05-24
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive in Burma on Sunday for important bilateral talks on Monday with President Thein Sein in Naypyitaw...
2012-05-24
Burmese police arrested five NLD members in a protest against electrical power shortages in Pyi on Thursday. A senior official of the National League...
2012-05-24
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein will both attend the World Economic Forum on Asia in Bangkok starting Wednesday...
2012-05-24
About 1,500 tourists are arriving each day in Burma’s four international airports, an increase of about one-third in the past year.
2012-05-23
Burmese illegal migrants are being rounded up in central Thailand and transferred to Mae Sot to be deported, according to reports.
2012-05-23
Two rallies against chronic electricity shortages in Burma's commercial capital, Rangoon, ended peacefully on Tuesday, after residents gathered in...
2012-05-22
A worldwide ad agency, WPP, has become the first western advertising group to invest in Burma since sanctions were eased, in hopes of attracting the...
2012-05-22
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton telephoned Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to review developments in Burma and to discuss the recent U.S...
2012-05-21
Health workers carrying out malaria control activities – sometimes covertly – in conflict zones along the Thai-Burma border hope additional donor...
2012-05-21
A decrease in electrical power in Rangoon on Saturday was caused by an explosion at four electrical towers on the national power grid. The government...
2012-05-19
– Ikuko Okamoto, Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation under Market Liberalization. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. –Koichi Fujita,...
2012-05-19
The United States' suspension of some economic sanctions against Burma has sparked mixed reaction from analysts and rights groups. Some argue that...
2012-05-18
In an open letter sent to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon earlier this week the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) called on the UN to take...