Myanmar Politics News

However, another international body that concerns itself with the issue of child soldiers, the International Labour Organization was not  present on the list of those attending. The training program was initiated after a  UN Security Council Working Group on Children...

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,...

Bangladeshi fishermen in the River Naaf and in the Bay and taking necessary steps for confidence building .Mainul is also likely to ask the Myanmar authorities to take back the Myanmar nationals, who were arrested by the Bangladesh law enforcers...

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...

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a delegation led by US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell at Inya Lake Hotel in Rangoon for two hours today, according to US officials. US Embassy...

U.S. diplomats Kurt Campbell and Scot Marciel are visiting Burma this week to test the Obama administration’s new policy of engagement with authoritarian regimes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asserted this policy will “help achieve democratic reform.” But this...