Nationalist Buddhist monk Wirathu has criticized plans for an anti-hate speech congress organized by Muslims, the Myanmar Times reports. Muslims leaders hope to hold a Union Muslim Congress before September,...
South Korean Yanghee Lee, a former child psychologist, has been confirmed as United Nations Special Rapporteur to Burma per June 1, taking over from former rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana, DVB...
The Burma Army on Monday arrested a member of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) employed at Kentung Township, Shan State, Eleven Media reports. Some 30 soldiers from No...
More than 90,000 new jobs may have been created by new foreign direct investment (FDI) in Burma during the 2013-14 fiscal year, state media reports. A report in the New...
More than 1,600 people were killed in road accidents in Burma in just four months, according to police figures quoted by Eleven Media. An official in the traffic police department...
National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address a rally in Irrawaddy Division’s Maubin Township on Saturday, where she will once again call for amendments to...
The Norton Simon Museum has agreed to return a 10th century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country's genocidal civil war in the 1970s....
Burma’s first bartenders competition is set to take place next month and the first two winners of the competition will represent the country in the Asean Bartenders’ Championship 2014, organizers...
The chief of Burma’s air force pledged to increase the country’s military cooperation with China during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese state newswire Xinhua reports. Xinhua said Air...
The Burmese government will spend almost US$40 million to alleviate water shortages across the country, an official at the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development told Mizzima. Director General ...
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