Myanmar Travel News

By Ursula Maxwell-Lewis - Cloverdale Reporter Published: June 18, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: June 18, 2013 1:50 PM Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life, the new Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit, offers what a good hotel should - opportunities to relax, travel, dream and depart refreshed.

Hope that a Korean consortium, led by the Incheon International Airport Corp., could win the first deal to build an international airport overseas this month is rising as the government is developing a package of programs to support the deal.

After several weeks of negotiation between Burma's government and local journalists, lawmakers this month will receive the final, revised draft of a controversial law to replace one of the former regime's most draconian publishing acts, a member of the country's Press Council says.

A Myanma Airways plane carrying about 60 passengers skidded off the runway at a regional airport on Monday, officials said, the second such incident in less than a month.

"We are inviting you to the capital of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw welcomes visitors, Everything is beautiful and sophisticated, You'll be pleased and relaxed."

A Myanma Airlines Xian MA-60, registration XY-AIP performing a flight from Mawlamyine to Kawthaung with 60 passengers and 4 crew, landed on Kawthaung's runway 02 but veered left off the runway and came to a stop in a group of bushes and trees about 60 meters off the left runway edge.

A view of the grounds of the sprawling 413-hectare Mandalay Palace complex from the Watch Tower.

Kinue Imai Weinstein, a New Providence photographer, will exhibit her Myanmar photos at the New Providence Memorial Library from June 29 through the Sept.

Myanmar-born Pote Lee will open the first branch of his upscale restaurant Water Library in his homeland after launching the first two branches in Bangkok in 2008 and 2012.

Wellington, June 7 : Pakistan has lost the final appeal against a decision of the International Tennis Federation over an unplayable grass court in a Davis Cup tie-match between Pakistan and New Zealand in April.

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters during a news conference at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, at the Myanmar International Convention Centre in Naypyitaw Thursday.

NAYPYIDAW : AirAsia Bhd, the region's biggest budget airline, plans to carry as much as 30 per cent of tourists visiting Myanmar as the Southeast Asian economy opens up for foreign investment and leisure travel.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi wants to be president after the 2015 elections, the Nobel peace prize laureate said Thursday.

The stunning beauty and diversity of the human race is captured in a series of photographs that have been submitted for this year's National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.

Travellers looking for a domestic flight in Myanmar should be especially critical after questions about airline safety raised by the German Foreign Ministry on its travel advisory website.

Hundreds of global leaders, industry chiefs and foreign media are descending on Myanmar's once-reclusive capital as the Southeast Asian country showcases its political and economic reforms in a bid to entice investment.

Two Myanmar Buddhists working in Malaysia have been found dead with slash wounds in Selayang following clashes with some Muslims.

As senior decision-makers from around the globe descend on Myanmar's capital city Nay Pyi Taw for the World Economic Forum on East Asia this week, multinational companies are lining up to explore the huge commercial opportunities in the country.

A women team of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar, led by wife of Ambassador Madame Ruan Wei, visited a residential nursery in Shwegondaing, Yangon Saturday, the International Children's Day, for a festive call on children accommodated in the nursery.