Burma News

In less than a year, Burma's new government has rolled out a series of reforms that have encouraged even its biggest critics.

Burma's reform process is in the balance as the hardliners and liberals in government are locked in a bitter power struggle.

On February 11th, three world class economists including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz are going to be in Rangoon, addressing a local audience.A The event is co-sponsored by Myanmar Institute of Economics Graduate Association - a new alphabet soup I did not at first recognize.

The United Nations human rights envoy says he has many concerns about Burma's move to democracy.

The abbot in Rangoon who was evicted from his monastery in December says he is looking forward to Saturday when his ban on public speaking will end.

CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Feb 6, 2012 - Moves by the Burmese government to settle ethnic conflicts in the country, notably with the Karens in the mountainous eastern part of the country, have caught critics of the regime by surprise.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and people of the DPRK, received messages and letters of greetings from different countries on the occasion of the New Year.

A top United Nations envoy warned Myanmar Sunday not to backtrack on its ongoing reform program and said the civilian government should acknowledge its past human rights violations to allow the country to move forward.

The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana released a press statement Sunday at Rangon International Airport, Burma.

THE Americans are returning to Burma. Jostling in hotel lifts with Chinese engineers who are here to build pipelines across Burma are new faces: US senators, business leaders and academics.

Tin Win and Mi Mi, a young Burmese couple, who form an unbreakable bond of love even though handicaps, poverty and adversity would pull apart lesser beings.

Rangoon- The Burmese exile-run Mizzima News Agency is preparing to open a branch office in Rangoon, reports said Sunday.

Map of the 36 Rohingya villages of the Kyauktaw township in the western Burmese Arakan state along the Kaladan River.

The government is set to extend the project on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for five more years to run the country's legal battle against India and Myanmar over its claim over the Bay of Bengal.

By Manik Mehta NEW YORK, Feb 4 -- Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries can influence fellow member Myanmar to follow the path of reform and democracy.

But the Hong Kong-based, Malaysian-born star refused to be drawn on the film's likely reception in Myanmar, otherwise known as Burma, where Suu Kyi's recent release from house arrest has ignited the democracy movement.

The UN human rights envoy to Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana arrives at Yangon International Airport on Jan.

Pirate copies of a new film about Aung San Suu Kyi's private life have flooded the streets of Yangon as vendors push the boundaries of new-found freedoms under a new government.Luc Besson's "The Lady", a two-hour biopic starring former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh, received mixed reviews, but that has not deterred viewers taking home blurred DVDs with ... (more)

Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed her second major campaign trip, this time to Mandalay, after officials said a football stadium would be closed "for government inspection." The trip will be rescheduled, National League for Democracy spokesman Ohn Kyaing told Mizzima .

Burma has plenty to entice visitors - and with the travel boycott at an end, they are sure to arrive in numbers, says Simon Usborne.