The abrupt cancellation of the screening of a film critical of Myanmar’s military has exposed sensitivities over portrayal of the army as the country deals with the legacy of 49 years of harsh military rule.
Myanmar's new government is taking steps in its efforts to attain economic growth, reforming the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC).
Myanmar said on Thursday that it will not reopen the long-closed Phaya Thonzu border crossing before formal demarcation is made on the controversial boundary.
Singaporeans travelling to Myanmar will no longer need to apply for a visa from Dec 1.
Myanmar authorities plan to shut down a notorious border town where exotic animal parts are sold openly, an official said on Tuesday, as Southeast Asia struggles to stem a billion-dollar wildlife trade fuelled by Chinese demand.
Bilateral relations and cooperation between Myanmar and Singapore have opened a new page as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is currently visiting Myanmar on the occasion of the two countries' 50th anniversary diplomatic ties.
A total of 129 out of 249 Myanmar fishermen, who had served their prison terms in India after being detained for illegally entering that country's territorial waters, have been released and brought back home, official media reported Wednesday.
Every year at this time, the ponds and wells go dry. People walk for hours to fill their plastic buckets at a lotus-filled pond that is the only clean source of drinking water in this community outside Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon.
A collapse at an illegal mine killed at least 13 people in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, a resident involved in rescue efforts said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents to hit the jade-mining area.
India, Thailand and Myanmar are negotiating a breakthrough 1,400-kilometre highway that will link India with Southeast Asia by land for the first time in decades.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given "enough space" to address the plight of her country's Rohingya Muslim population, as visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed the Nobel peace laureate to promote respect for human rights.
The Obama administration lifted sanctions against 10 state-run Myanmar companies and banks Tuesday in response to the Southeast Asian nation's historic transition to democracy, but it retained restrictions on trade and investment with the still-powerful military.
Foreign Minister of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and her Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan on Wednesday vowed to boost bilateral ties and cooperation between the two countries.
The United States announced Tuesday that it is lifting some of the sanctions on Myanmar to show support for the country's political reforms and economic growth and to facilitate trade between the two sides.
The El Nino weather phenomenon, forecast to be the strongest in five hundred years, which is striking Myanmar this year, will bring down the country's agricultural yield and impact food security, said a noted Myanmar meteorology and hydrology expert Tuesday.
The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) will help the Myanmar Police Force upgrade its training curriculum, official media reported on Tuesday.
Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw will attend the ASEAN-Russia Commemorative Summit in Sochi to mark the 20th anniversary ASEAN-Russia Dialogue relations to be held from May 19 to 20, according to an official announcement Sunday.
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