Burma News

Burmese activist holds a picture of opposition party leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the Burmese embassy in Bangkok Burma's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was not invited this year to pay ...

Khin Nyo San dashes from her tent to the nearby shack serving as a school, splashing down a muddy path in the desperate hope that a visitor from Rangoon might have news of her missing child.

Members of Burma's battered and disparate opposition are growing disillusioned with the old methods of the pro-democracy movement and are seeking ways to escalate their armed struggle.

YANGON, Myanmar : Hundreds of riot police and soldiers ringed a monument in downtown Yangon on Saturday as officials gathered to commemorate the shooting death 61 years ago of opposition leader Aung San Suu ...

A farmer in the Irrawaddy Delta region west of Rangoon, Burma, ploughs a field with a home made machine, 03 Jun 2008 A United Nations food agency is appealing for more money to help fishermen and farmers in ...

A United Nations decision to end aid flights to Myanmar next month could hurt relief efforts already struggling to reach millions of survivors with adequate food and water, humanitarian groups said Friday.

Foreign Minister George Yeo gave the Association of South-East Asian Nations a grade C for its handling of Burma following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, when the country's ruling junta refusing to allow ...

It has been reported that a 3G network has been launched in Burma based on the WCDMA standard.

An umbrella opposition group in exile, the National Council of the Union of Burma , has objected to the claims of the ruling military regime to represent the country in the United Nations General Assembly.

The basic strategy of the United Nations special envoy so far appears to have been to yield to the regime.

Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 9:43 am Press Release: IFRC While emergency relief remains essential to Cyclone Nargis survivors, longer-term support is required in the Ayeyarwady delta.

One man was killed and another injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in military-ruled Burma, state media said.

Myanmar is inviting a United Nations special envoy to visit in mid-August, for talks that are expected to focus on international efforts to bring political reforms to the Southeast Asian nation.

The invitation by Myanmar's ambassador, Kyaw Tint Swe, was extended to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special representative for Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, in a letter to Vietnam's ambassador, Le Luong Minh, whose nation holds the Security Council's rotating presidency this month.

Myanmar, where 138,000 were left dead or missing after Cyclone Nargis struck in early May, also is on council's agenda this month.

July 14, 2008 The democratic movement of Burma will be challenging the credentials of the Burmese military junta at the 2008 United Nations General Assembly session and object to its right to represent Burma at ...

YANGON, Myanmar : A bomb exploded aboard a bus traveling north of Yangon, killing one passenger and injuring another, state media said Tuesday.

One man was killed when a bomb exploded on a bus in army-ruled Myanmar, newspapers said on Tuesday, the latest incident ahead of anniversaries that sometimes serve as flashpoints for dissent.

A bomb exploded in a highway bus around 8 a.m. On Monday near the town of Daik-U in Pegu Division.

Ten Acehnese fishermen have been serving two-year prison sentences since February for unauthorized entry into Burmese territorial waters, according to Indonesia's foreign ministry.

A prominent detained student activist and other political prisoners have been hit with new charges designed to prolong their detention, according to family members.

The devastating tropical cyclone Nargis that struck southern Burma two months ago, has revealed to the world that it was even less disastrous compared to its regime.