Burma News

RANGOON, BURMA - Burmese troops kill or torture civilians and destroy churches and even entire villages of the predominantly Christian Kachin minority despite pledges from Burma's nominally civilian government that it seeks ceasefire agreements with ethnic groups, investigators said Sunday, February 12.

Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her National League for Democracy party office after attending a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Burma's Union Day on Feb.

As the new regime embarks on reforms after years of authoritarian rule, billions of baht are ready to pour into the neighbouring country.

A U.S. contractor working to provide Internet service to Cuba's small Jewish community was charged with spying and sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison.

Myanmar's fledgling parliament is slaving over its first budget, a daunting task for the inexperienced body in a country where the army has long been used to dipping into state coffers at will.

European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piedalgs arrived here Sunday on a three-day visit to monitor latest developmental works in the country.

Wild welcome Aung San Suu Kyi stands in her car so crowds can see her as she campaigns for the first time in Kaw Hmu, in the southern constituency she hopes to represent.

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to give a rapturous welcome today Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail for the first time in her bid to win a seat in the country's parliament.

Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, speaks to supporters at Kaw-Hmu constituency for election campaign, in Rangoon, Burma, February 11, 2012.

CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Feb 11, 2012 - As 'positive' news flows out of Burma - release of political prisoners, ceasefire talks in ethnic areas, increased freedom, formation of labour unions A- people inside the country and exiles have been in heated discussion.

Burma Media Association released a press statement on 9 February concerning about the new media law put forward by the Burmese government last week.

The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and - or at least he is hoping - The Maldives.

Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.

A four-day workers' strike at the Tai Yi footwear factory in an industrial zone in Rangoon Region on Thursday spread to a nearby factory.

In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Shin Gambira, a prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar, attends a ceremony of "Pray for Peace and Religious Unity" at a church in Yangon, Myanmar.

In an obscure part of southwest China, a refugee crisis from one of the world's longest running and least known conflicts in Myanmar is slowly unfolding, largely ignored by the outside world and denied by China.

Clashes have broken out over a two-day period between the Shan State Army-South and Burmese government forces after the Burmese troops attacked a Shan military base on Tuesday, the SSA-S says.

This January 19, 2012 photo shows U Gambira, leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance, after he was released from prison.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Richard Colwill recalls his days in Burma as he looks at an old picture of himself in uniform The assassination of Burmese General Aung San sparked a chain of events leading to the house arrest of his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi.

Shin Gambira, a prominent Buddhist monk in Burma who has been detained by authorities again.