What do a British farmer, a Belarusian online gaming giant, scientists and a war veteran have in common? They are all in Myanmar in search of buried Spitfires. Stuart Heaver is standing by for...
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2 Oct 2013
Buddhist mobs killed a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torched more than 70 homes yesterday as sectarian violence again gripped Myanmar's Rakhine state despite a visit by President Thein Sein,...
5:32PM
23 Sep 2013
Thousands of Myanmar nationals living in Singapore gave Aung San Suu Kyi an emotional welcome on Sunday as the democracy icon urged them to consider coming home to help rebuild the impoverished...
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20 Sep 2013
The United States on Thursday welcomed Myanmar’s signing of an agreement with the UN atomic watchdog that will require it to declare any nuclear activities and allow inspections - the latest step...
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7 Aug 2013
Myanmar’s army has freed 68 children and young people from military service, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling for a “mass release” of child soldiers in the formerly junta-run nation...
4:55PM
23 Jul 2013
Myanmar agreed to release some 70 political prisoners on Tuesday, an official said, after President Thein Sein vowed to free all dissidents by the end of the year.
6:02PM
Myanmar’s president on Saturday lifted a state of emergency in the central part of the country put in place after Buddhist-led mobs went on a rampage, killing dozens of Muslims and burning down...
7:31PM
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi has battled Yangon's ever-increasing traffic to meet me at his office in an apartment block north of the city's Inya Lake. The Myanmese independent filmmaker arrives late and...
1:24PM
The United States placed a Myanmar general on its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday for arms deals with North Korea that violated a UN Security Council embargo on buying weapons from Pyongyang.
12:21AM
The Myanmar government plans to renegotiate billions of dollars of natural resource deals as it imposes tougher environmental standards and clamps down on corruption, a leading US think tank said...
12:09PM
Companies awarded telecommunications licences in Myanmar this week will need to spend billions of dollars rolling out networks across a country that has yet to pass a law to govern the sector and...
12:03PM
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