South Korean prosecutors indicted on Thursday four crew members of a ferry that capsized in April killing more than 280 passengers for manslaughter, a senior prosecutor said. The prosecution also...
Burmese Vice President Nyan Tun has spoken out in defense of large-scale land seizures under the previous military regime, Mizzima reports. During a ceremony in Irrawaddy Division’s Kyaunggone Township marking...
Doctors in Burma have recorded the first increase in dengue cases after the first monsoon rains fell recently, Eleven Media reports. “Although there were one or two dengue fever patients...
At least 14 people were killed in a bus crash on Burma’s notorious “death highway” on Monday night, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The news agency said that 29 people...
Reuters journalists could face arrest in Thailand over article alleging that Thailand’s military was involved in the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Reuters won a...
Burmese President Thein Sein has called for more cooperation between Southeast Asian countries on dealing with natural disasters, state media reports. The New Light of Myanmar on Monday said that...
Burma’s state-run telecommunications company, Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), will partner with Japan’s KDDI Corporation, The Myanmar Times reports. The newspaper quoted telecoms department director Than Tun Aung saying a...
A planned meeting between the heads of government of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and the Asean Civil Society Conference/Asean Peoples’ Forum in Naypyidaw this weekend was canceled...
President’s Office spokesman Ye Htut has brushed aside concerns that Burma’s relationship with the United States is suffering as a result of its policies towards the Rohingya, The Myanmar Times...
The U.S. House of Representatives has called on Burma to end persecution of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, in the stiffest congressional criticism yet of the nation's reformist government. The...
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