Myanmar Travel News

Staff Reporter The government has decided to reduce fuel oil price within a month as the downtrend in the international market continues, special assistant to the Chief Adviser Dr M Tamim told newsmen ...

A second lawsuit was filed against a Chinese dairy company at the heart of the tainted milk crisis, an attorney said on Friday, as more than 10,000 children remained hospitalised after drinking milk powder ...

Commerce Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman Wednesday said Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to raise their bilateral trade volume to US$500 million in the next fiscal year.

Bangladesh will procure 100,000 tons of rice from Myanmar on a regular basis as Dhaka mooted several proposals to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation with Yangon.

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Dhaka, Oct 4: Vice-Chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Maung Aye will arrive here on a 3-day official visit to Bangladesh on October 7, officials said.

A recent flurry of high-level contacts between North Korea and Myanmar raises new nuclear proliferation concerns between the two pariah states, one of which already possesses nuclear-weapon capabilities and the ...

Much like the locals, the best way to get around Myanmar's Inle Lake region is by bicycle.

The Irrawaddy cuts through Myanmar from north to south. Used as a transportation artery and a source for water and irrigation of crops, the Irrawaddy is critical to the life of this nation.

Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers in Myanmar have been helping those affected by Cyclone Nargis from the very early hours of May 3. They assisted with rescue operations, transportation, first aid, blood ...

Nearly all the rice fields in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta that were devastated by Cyclone Nargis in May have been replanted, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday.

Key nations concerned about Myanmar are calling on its military government to release all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and to start talking with the opposition.

A former aide to Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was re-arrested less than 24 hours after being freed by the military government in a mass amnesty, an opposition spokesman said Friday.

YANGON, Myanmar : A year ago, Myanmar's police and military stormed the streets of this moldy, crumbling city and began a deadly crackdown on thousands of Buddhist monks protesting sharp rises in the price of ...

YANGON, Myanmar : Myanmar's military government said it freed 9,002 prisoners on Tuesday, including the country's longest-serving political prisoner, Win Tin, and four people elected to Parliament in the ...

While in prison for her political activism in Myanmar, writer and doctor Ma Thida sometimes practiced Theravada meditation for up to 20 hours a day.

I was sitting inside one of the numerous temples on the Bagan plain in Myanmar catching a brief respite from the sun.

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A coordination meeting for Promotion of Myanmar Tourism was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism here this afternoon, attended by Prime Minister General Thein Sein.

YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has managed to wring small concessions from the ruling generals in the form of letters from her family and some international news magazines, her lawyer said on Friday.

The Nobel laureate, whose refusal of new food deliveries to the Yangon villa where she is under house arrest prompted speculation of a hunger strike, had also agreed to a visit by her doctor, lawyer Kyi Win told reporters.

"The authorities have agreed to let her receive family mail, read some international periodicals like Newsweek and Time and lift restrictions on the movement of her housekeeper, Khin Khin Win and daughter," he said after visiting Suu Kyi. There was no word on whether the 63-year-old, who has been under continuous house arrest for the last five years, would get a new satellite television decoder to replace an existing one that is believed to have broken.