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Myanmar's junta has officially transformed the rebel army of the Kokang region into a border guard force under its command, state media reported Saturday. A ceremony marking the metamorphosis from former rebel force to the Kokang border guards was held...

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...

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...

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...

According to the Indian newspaper, The Telegraph, they said that more than one hundred militants were living in camps inside Burma. Guwahati [capital of Assam] who were there in Burma for training and other activities,” he said. India had offered...

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...

Australia will provide $ 3 million to Burma, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as part of its effort to help reduce the spread of HIV in Asia-Pacific region. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in a statement on World...

One of Myanmar's famous hotel in Yangon -- the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, will add an all-year-round gem show to display Myanmar's quality gems to attract more visitors to the country as part of its bid to boost both the gem...

2009/12/02 IT is hard to find anything redeeming about the Myanmar junta after decades of repression and misrule. The generals of Naypyidaw, which the North Koreans helped build, only have those peers left in the world whose villainy is measured...