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Participants at a pro-Constitution rally organized by the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Irrawaddy Division’s Zalun Township said they were tricked into joining the event, Mizzima reports....

Burma’s beer production continues to rise and local brewers produced 27.5 million gallons of beer in the last fiscal year, which lasted from April 2013 to March 2014, Eleven Media...

Indonesian presidential favorite Joko Widodo has chosen former Vice President Jusuf Kalla as his running mate, a pick likely to strengthen an already formidable ticket. Opinion polls show a Widodo-Kalla...

Rescue workers in Bangladesh completed the search of a stricken river ferry on Saturday, bringing the number of bodies recovered to 54 two days after the vessel capsized with around...

Next month, Arakan State police will start arresting anyone found on the street in Sittwe during the 9 pm-5 am curfew, Mizzima reports. The outlet cites a “security message” for...

Kanbawza Football Club has announced that it will relocate from Taunggyi in Shan State to Rangoon for the next Myanmar National League season, Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reports. “The...

Vice President Joe Biden is conveying America's objections about China's behavior in a territorial dispute with Vietnam to the top brass of the Chinese military. Biden met Thursday with Fang...

Bangladeshi rescuers were trying on Friday to pull a capsized ferry to land in their search for victims still believed trapped in the vessel that went over during bad weather...

Arakanese Buddhist leaders in the Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) object to plans by international aid agencies to build a permanent emergency hospital for displaced Rohingya Muslims in Dar Paing camp...

The Burmese government’s chief peace negotiator, President’s Office Minister Aung Min, said he was primarily responsible for a trust deficit between the government and ethnic Kachin rebels in the country’s...