News Source: Financial Times
| 13 days ago
It is only right to add Burma to that list, however repressive the military junta that has so misruled the resource-rich country for years. The reasons for engaging Burma, whose generals prefer the name Myanmar, are well-rehearsed – but worth...
News Source: Myanmar News
| 14 days ago
Speaking at a meeting in the Philippines where officials are laying the groundwork for the inaugural US-Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) meeting, Washington's ambassador to the organisation, Scott Marciel, said: "We expect all Asean...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 15 days ago
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Saturday said Japan plans to increase aid to Myanmar gradually while hailing Washington's latest efforts to engage the military-ruled country. "Japan plans to expand our humanitarian aid and assistance for human...
News Source: Myanmar News
| 15 days ago
Suu Kyi and other political prisoners be set free by the time the general elections are held in Hatoyama was quoted by a Japanese official as telling Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein during their first bilateral meeting. Hatoyama also said...
News Source: Myanmar News
| 15 days ago
News Inside Burma Scribes welcome permission to cover Suu Kyi’s meet Scribes welcome permission to cover Suu Kyi’s meet by Nem Davies Saturday, 07 November 2009 13:46 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese journalists have welcomed the junta...
News Source: Myanmar News
| 15 days ago
These days everybody is talking about Aung San Suu Kyi and the US-Burma relationship with high and low hopes. Most of them are favourably optimistic hoping that America will bring about a miracle in Burma. But one should remember the days when Aung...