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Human Development Index, with an annual per capita gross national income at just $220. Cyclone Nargis, which devastated large parts of the country in May 2008, killing some 140,000 people and shattering the lives of 2.4 million more. Over a...

However, there are limited viable farmlands and growing population pressures, in turn leading to shorter field rotation cycles, poor soil fertility and crop yields, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).   Chronic food insecurity has been made worse by...

Yangon and Mandalay this month to provide better telecommunication services, the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications said on Monday. MHz phone lines will be installed in Yangon, while the remaining 50,000 will be installed in Mandalay, the sources said, adding...

30 p.m. at Calvary Episcopal Church at Shady Avenue and Walnut Street...This year, the organization has chosen to write letters on behalf of 10 individuals and groups, including a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who is jailed in Myanmar and an...

To coincide with the long-awaited, much-anticipated nationwide launch of Dogs In Vogue – A Century of Canine Chic , by the estimable Judith Watt, here are a few fashionable dog anecdotes of my own. Dogs and fashion – they go...

Myanmar has charged 128 foreign fishermen with violating immigration laws after they were arrested last month for illegal fishing, an official said Sunday. The group, currently held in Yangon's notorious Insein jail, was made up mostly of Indonesians and included...

Yangon's Botahtaung Port, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday. The reconstruction of the Pontoon bridge represents one of the remaining projects in the second phase for improvement of facilities of Yangon port and inland water transport after...