Arakan State, Burma News

A group of Chinese tourists enters Burma through the newly opened border crossing in Daluo in southern Yunnan Province on Jan.

Members of eight Burmese political parties arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the Kaladan River project, a joint India-Burma trade venture.

As Myanmar trades political reforms in return for an end to economic sanctions, businesses big and small are queuing for access to the region's last closed economy.

Australia Day is celebrated by Salesian brothers, sisters and priests of Melbourne based communities at the presbytery of St.

Mizzima ) - People in two townships in Arakan State are protesting, calling for the Burmese government to supply more gas to the region as a fuel to provide more electricity to the state which lacks sufficient electrical power.Activists delivered an open letter to the Arakan state minister on Monday with the demand, said a statement by the Shwe ... (more)

China's South East Asia Pipeline Company Ltd signed a US $1 million pledge for funding 25 development projects in Arakan State and Magway Division last Saturday.