Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United ...

American Bubba Watson ins the US Masters golf tournament in Augusta after a tense playoff against South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen.

North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch.

An investigation is underway into the case of 26 Burmese asylum seekers who were on a boat that ran out ...

Manchester United surged closer to a 20th English league title by beating Queens Park Rangers 2-0 while Manchester City lost ...

A day after meeting Burma's President Thein Sein, a Karen rebel delegation has talks with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu ...

A round-up of comments from readers of The Irrawaddy taken from some of our top stories over the course of ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invites Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin for bilateral talks in Washington in the ...

The Moustache Brothers have managed to eke out a living performing to foreign tourists despite a nationwide ban due to ...