Mizzima
2013-03-29
Hoteliers and travel agents in Rakhine State say that tourism is booming in the western Rakhine beach resort of Ngapali while further north the...
2013-03-29
The Department of Border Trade has announced that a meeting to discuss trade between the Bangladesh and Myanmar and the high security fence that...
2013-03-29
Although there are reasons to be hopeful about Myanmar now, events of the past ten days have cast a dark shadow over the country. The violence...
2013-03-29
In a televised address to the nation on Thursday at 6 pm local time, Myanmar President Thein Sein said he was saddened by the religious violence that...
2013-03-28
Following severe violence and intimidation against reporters covering the inter-communal riots that erupted in Central Myanmar on March 20, the...
2013-03-28
Anti-Muslim mob violence broke out on Wednesday afternoon in Minhla and Zigon villages in the Bago Region, local residents told Mizzima.
2013-03-28
A top executive from one of the estimated 90 companies bidding for two telecoms licenses in Myanmar has called for the government to install the...
2013-03-28
The European Burma Network, a collective of advocacy and human rights groups, has released a joint statement urging the European Union to delay...
2013-03-27
The Border Consortium (TBC), an umbrella group of NGOs which supplies humanitarian relief to some 140,000 refugees at the Thai-Myanmar border, has...
2013-03-27
The Ministry of Information announced on March 25 that in a second round of licensing eight more private daily newspapers have been granted...
2013-03-27
Punj Lloyd Upstream Ltd, an Indian company which is building an extension of the Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline, has been accused of failing to...
2013-03-27
Addressing more than 6,300 soldiers on Wednesday morning, Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing said that the military will continue...
2013-03-25
The Japanese Ambassador Mikio Numata donated US$6.9 million on behalf of Japan to the UN refugee agency in Myanmar in an official ceremony in...
2013-03-25
The Jakarta Globe has reported that Bukit Asam, an Indonesian state-owned coal mining company, plans to invest US $80 million in a mine-mouth coal-...
2013-03-25
Meiktila was quiet on Wednesday, March 20. Everyone was going about their business, including the customers in a local gold shop. Somehow an argument...