A total of nine trafficked Myanmar migrant workers, who are seamen, have been repatriated to homeland from Indonesia, an official report said on Thursday.
The Myanmar government will make all its efforts to ensure that the Nov. 8 general election will be free and fair, Myanmar President U Thein Sein said on Tuesday.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi described on Tuesday the upcoming general election as a crucial turning point of the country.
Qatar-based telecom operator Ooredoo Myanmar has offered free data services for WeChat Myanmar app under a partnership program between the two communication apps, an official report said Tuesday.
Singapore's Mercy Relief distributed food supply to flood-hit Myanmar
Myanmar's severe flooding nationwide has displaced nearly 600,000 people, according to updated figures of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation Sunday.
Chinese enterprises in Myanmar have joined the country's relief efforts in flood-hit areas, while relief aid from the Chinese embassy and companies are being transported in, Chinese ambassador Hong Liang has told Xinhua following his tour in the worst-hit Sagaing region and Rakhine state.
The flood disaster in Myanmar since June has brought the death toll nationwide to 88 and affected more than 330,000 people across the nation, prompting a state of emergency for urgent relief efforts.
Myanmar Thursday granted an amnesty to 6,966 prisoners including 155 detained Chinese loggers, an act warmly welcomed by China, which stressed such cases should be handled in a lawful and sensible way.
Myanmar should consider the actual situation of a group of Chinese nationals, who have been sentenced for illegal logging in the Southeast Asian country, and deal with the matter in a lawful, reasonable and sensible way.
Myanmar navy has rescued 102 more " boat people" who are Bengalis, from an islet near Kawthoung, the country's southernmost Tanintharyi region, an official report said Tuesday.
Myanmar's joining in signing the constitution of the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as one of the founding members will benefit the country's infrastructural construction, Myanmar Deputy Finance and Revenue Minister Man Man Thein said on Monday.
Myanmar's Health Ministry said on Monday that no suspected cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been reported in the country.
The Central Bank of Myanmar has decided to sell foreign exchange reserves at a set rate in a bid to facilitate import of fuel and edible oil and prevent unwanted hike in foreign currency exchange rate, sources with the central bank said Thursday.
President Xi Jinping met with a delegation from Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD), headed by NLD chair Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday afternoon at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing.
Myanmar's House of Nationalities ( upper house) has passed a motion to adopt a decisive policy for detained "boat people," sources with the parliament said Tuesday.
The United Nations and Myanmar have vowed to cooperate in tackling "boat people" issue both nationally and regionally, said a statement of the UN published Wednesday following the temporary visit of UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Myanmar Vijay Nambiar to the camp in Rakhine state where rescued migrants were located.
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