Burma News

The June 20 shakeup in the Burmese armed forces has raised the question of whether the top military leaders are at loggerheads.

Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has said Bangladesh is willing to resolve the issues of repatriation of the Rohingya refugees and maritime border demarcation with Myanmar through discussion.

KOLKATA: The Kolkata-based United Bank of India has signed agreements with three foreign banks for facilitating border trade between India and Myanmar.

Two teams of foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been forced to leave cyclone-hit Burma.

AP's coverage of the devastating Myanmar cyclone amid extraordinarily hazardous and harsh conditions has received top honors for deadline reporting from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

A BURMESE editor has been arrested and his magazine closed after he travelled to the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta to help bury people killed in the storm, media rights watchdogs said today.

NEW DELHI: India will lend Myanmar $84 million for a power project and steel plant, official newspapers reported on Wednesday, another sign of New Delhi's desire to build close ties with its military-run pariah ...

A Myanmar Buddhist monk, a survivor of Cyclone Nargis, gathers wood near his temple Thursday, May 29, 2008, outside of Yangon.

ET confirms that four of Hollywood's most influential celebs, Brad Pitt , George Clooney , Matt Damon and Don Cheadle , are using their star power to help bring aid to the victims of Burma's Cyclone Nargis.

According to some reports, military officers went to every house across the country and ordered people to vote "yes" in the May 10 national referendum to adopt the junta-drafted constitution.

Myanmar has signed up for an $84 million loan from India, state media reported on Wednesday, in a move signalling expanding ties between the two neighbours.

The bamboo forests and sugar cane fields that once covered these gently sloping hills have been replaced by hulking government buildings, roads so long and straight they resemble runways and a vast construction ...

As Burma's state-run media urged private citizens to donate "cash and kind" to relief efforts in the cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta, donors say that the government is moving to tighten its control over ...

Myanmar's ruling junta has announced that 84,500 people perished in Cyclone Nargis in May, up from an earlier confirmed toll of 77,700. Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu told reporters Tuesday that the official ...

Tajikistan News.Net Monday 23rd June, 2008 Amid signs that Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Than Shwe has tightened his grip over the military, at least five lieutenant generals have been retired from the ...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar : The bamboo forests and sugarcane fields that once covered the gently sloping hills here have been replaced by hulking government buildings, roads so long and straight they resemble runways ...

With a planting deadline looming, rice farmers in cyclone-hit parts of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta have hit a problem -- donated oxen and water buffaloes are refusing to work because they are stressed.

Dengue fever remains a particular concern in the cyclone-hit region. The World Health Organisation says that the health system in cyclone-battered Burma is "back on its feet," but warned that disease risks ...

YANGON, Myanmar : Myanmar's military government warned Wednesday that its enemies are seeking to create panic by spreading rumors that more natural disasters will strike the country after last month's Cyclone ...

Nearly two months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, humanitarian relief groups are still struggling to get government permission to deliver life-saving aid to 2 million survivors, said ...