Yangon Politics News

Minister, Aung Kyi, at a government guesthouse near her home, Rangoon-based wire news agencies reported, quoting officials. The reports, carried by AP and AFP , gave no details on the previously unannounced meeting. Aung Kyi was appointed liaison officer between...

The Burmese-born US citizen currently detained in a Rangoon prison on charges of fraud is staging a hunger strike, his aunt has said. Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, has met with his family on several occasions...

Khin Yi, speaking at the ceremony, said the drugs and associated paraphernalia were seized over the past six months and were valued at over $93 million dollars, the report said. "Myanmar is fully conscious of the fact that it cannot...

Singapore’s BH Global Marine Limited said it has entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with two Burmese businessmen to export marine products to military-ruled Burma. A BH Global official told Mizzima on Wednesday that the company has signed a Joint...

In a discreet move aimed at getting the much-anticipated talks with Ulfa off the ground, the Assam government has requested the Centre to devise a mechanism to incorporate the word “sovereignty” on the agenda for the proposed talks with the...

Kalaw, Burma –The power shuts down in Kalaw at 8 p.m. every evening. The locals rely on cooking fires or Chinese generators to reveal the muddy potholes and dead ends around town. The streets around the pine-studded hills of northern...

Ambassador David Lipman spoke to reporters in Myanmar's main city Yangon after meeting with the country's leader Senior General Than Shwe to obtain diplomatic credentials in the remote capital Naypyidaw a day earlier. "We had a good discussion about future...

The arrests came one day after the detention of Aung Zaw Oo, a member of the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters group, who was suspected of planning events to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. Amnesty International condemned...

Myanmar official media Friday hailed the Sedona Hotel in Yangon for receiving prestigious Myanmar's Leading Hotel for 2009, which is one of the world travel awards. The award, presented at the 16th World Travel Awards ceremony in London last month,...

Myanmar — Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results...Than Shwe released Tuesday, Suu Kyi has requested a...