Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago. PHOTOS Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AFP/Attila...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
AP YANGON, Myanmar For the first time in Myanmar’s history, the Ministry of Defense is inviting women to join the army. An advertisement in the Myanmar Ahlin newspaper says the new cadets must be single, at least 5 feet, 3 inches (160 centimeters) tall, between...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
Naing Ko Ko Special to The Nation Instead of focusing on low-salaried bureaucrats as the main cause of graft, advocates need to go after those at the very top of the centres of power When I started to write about anti-corruption issues in Myanmar on the East Asia...
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
Filed by KOSU News in World News. Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government —...
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
VOA News Police in Burma say they have found at least two unexploded bombs following explosions that killed two people and injured several others in recent days. Authorities say one unexploded bomb was found Monday in Mandalay, while another was discovered in Rangoon....
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
By JACK GOODMAN British MP Valerie Vaz addressed the House of Commons last week to discuss the findings of an eight-day cross-party delegation to Burma in August. She met afterwards with DVB’s Jack Goodman to discuss the delegation, British foreign policy towards...
