By holding an election to legitimise decades of military rule, Burma’s generals may have inadvertently created a framework for a democratic system.
New electoral laws exclude iconic democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi by barring anybody serving a custodial sentence.
Burma will hold its first parliamentary poll in two decades on November 7, state media said on Friday, ending speculation over the timing of a vote.
Subdued religious ceremonies by activists and pro-democracy politicians marked the anniversary Sunday of the 1988 uprising.
South Africans have joined people around the world in celebrating the 65th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has now spent 5 349 days in detention.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday renewed his call for Burma’s military rulers to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Landslides and floods caused by torrential rain have killed 46 people in western Burma this week, state television reported on Wednesday.
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has lodged a new appeal with the Supreme Court against her house arrest in a final attempt to win freedom.
More than 20 members of Burma’s ruling junta have resigned from the army in what is widely seen as a bid to run as civilians in forthcoming elections.
Burma’s ruling junta has used new election laws to officially annul the result of polls in 1990 that were won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party.
Burma’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, keeping her in detention.
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/ 29 January 2010
There is little love lost between the Burma businessmen, farmers and massage girls who flock to booming China and their host nation.
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/ 25 January 2010
The giant red poster staring over China’s Wanding border crossing with Burma proclaims that their "brotherly feelings will last forever".
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/ 4 November 2009
A top US official held talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday as Burma’s ruling junta gave the democracy icon a rare break from house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s renewed house arrest has reminded the world of an intractable problem. Unified action is needed, say activists.
The UN Security Council has agreed on a watered-down statement expressing "serious concern" at the extended detention of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.
Exiled Burmese nationals in Bangkok on Saturday called for democracy at home as they marked the 21st anniversary of the 1988 uprising.
Burmese pro-democracy leader begins to prepare for prison life as she awaits trial verdict now delayed until 11 August.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon is in Burma on a mission to press the ruling junta to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
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/ 15 January 2009
A Burma court has jailed a student activist for 104 years, officials said on Thursday.
Burma marked the 61st anniversary of its independence on Sunday with pomp and defiance, as the junta called on citizens to support 2010 elections.
Organisations are working to ensure that Burma cyclone survivors living with HIV are included in relief efforts.
The catastrophe in Burma has provided a good reason for the United States and others to insist on access to the secretive state.
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/ 25 October 2007
Burma’s detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is to hold surprise talks with a minister from the ruling junta today, according to sources in Burma. Residents in Rangoon, where Aung San Suu Kyi is being held under house arrest, told the Associated Press that she had left her home to meet officials.
Myanmar on Tuesday called for international help to tackle bird flu after the country confirmed its first case of the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry. "We are still trying to control it. We need help not only with the technical procedures, but also with equipment," said the country’s top veterinary official Than Hla.
Thin Sandar, a chicken-seller in Myanmar, had always dreamed of being a man. When she inexplicably grew a penis last month, the 21-year-old treated it as an awe-inspiring omen — as have the thousands of stunned villagers who have travelled to a pagoda to see him.
A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother, <i>The Myanmar Times</i> reported.
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela continued his South-East Asian tour on Thursday by receiving an honorary doctorate from Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University, where students sang "Happy Birthday" to him ahead of his 79th birthday on Friday.