Burma News

Burma's defiant reception of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week underscored the military government's self-isolation from the international community.

The United Nations is assessing how it can assist Myanmar in the wake of a deadly landslide caused by heavy rains which swept away a jade miners' settlement in the north of the country.

The North Korean ship that tried to steam to Burma last month isn't the only problem facing the U.S. and its allies.

Thailanda s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjejiva proposes to visit neighbouring military-ruled Burma later this month, sources in the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

It's nearly midnight on Saturday and the dance floor of DJ's Bar in Rangoon is packed with Burmese youth, grooving to throbbing house music as red, green and yellow light beams flash and slice across the room.

Along the shores of artificial Inya Lake, the empty compound of Aung San Suu Kyi lies within plain sight as couples stroll the path.

The tunnel project underway in Burma includes plans to build covert ammunitions factories that will produce surface-to-air missiles controlled from underground command bases, leaked intelligence documents reveal.

Economic sanctions imposed by the West a ' United States and the European Union a ' notwithstanding, foreign investments in Burma, since 1988, accounts for a total of US dollar 15 billion.

As the UN helicopter skimmed above the placid Irrawaddy Delta, Burma's military junta was putting the final touches on its showcase village.

Two days after the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon not only failed to obtain the release of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi or even a single political prisoner in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, but he also failed to even secure a meeting with her, a leading human rights organization ...

A landslide caused by torrential rain killed about 30 people in northern Myanmar at the weekend when it swept away their homes, which were built on a mine dump, people in contact with the area said on Wednesday.

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has urged Burma's military authorities to free the jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

I've been meaning to comment on the US government's tracking the North Korean ship that was trudging its way toward Burma .

As the U.N. helicopter skimmed above the now-placid Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar's military junta was putting the final touches on their showcase village.

The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom is planning to stage violent strikes in the run up to Independence Day, with a four-member hit squad sneaking into the state from bases in Myanmar, rebel leaders said Tuesday.

YANGON: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ended a mission to Myanmar saying he was "deeply disappointed" that the isolated nation's top military ruler denied him a visit to jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's ruling junta wanted Ban Ki-moon to go into a grandiose drug museum through the back door to prevent the U.N. secretary-general from making a rock-star entrance.

A 13-year-old girl has become the first confirmed carrier of the H1N1 swine flu virus in Burma after being hospitalized on 26 June following a trip to Singapore last week, a Burmese newspaper reported on Saturday.

A North Korean ship tracked by the U.S. Navy on suspicion of carrying a banned arms cargo is expected to return home on Monday after a voyage that tested U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing Pyongyang for its May nuclear test.

Before it began, United Nations officials had described UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon's visit to Burma as a diplomatically risky mission that could end in failure.