Oct 1, 2013 | News / Article
(Burmatimes) by WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)– The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
By AP Former President Jimmy Carter talks to journalists during a news conference Thursday at Strand Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. Carter and other former world leaders wrapped up a visit to Myanmar with calls to address spiraling Buddhist-led violence against minority...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
Editor: Hou Qiang YANGON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — China’s Myanmar-language professor Su Xiuyu provided stipends on Sunday for 27 poor and outstanding Myanmar students to pursue university education under the name of “Professor Su-Xiuyu Fund”. Su,...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
Xinhua Myanmar’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) on Saturday urged to amend the country’s 2008 Constitution. The NLD-formed Constitution Amendment Committee said in an announcement that constitution amendments is necessary as rule...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
AP UNITED NATIONS A group of Western and Asian governments are lauding Myanmar’s progress toward democracy but warning outbreaks of communal violence could undermine the reforms. Foreign ministers meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
VOA News RANGOON — A joint American-Burmese expedition has become the first to summit a mountain peak that the climbers believe is the highest point in southeast Asia: Gamlang Razi in Burma’s Kachin State. But not everyone is ready to revise the record books...