Burma’s premier national-level body for disabled rights is soon to be formed, following a national conference on disability held in Rangoon on 12 June. The 21-member Myanmar [Burma] Council of People with Disabilities will work towards implementing nationwide policies to protect the disabled. ...

YANGON—Myanmar and Thailand signed an agreement to jointly upgrade a highway linking the Thai-Myanmar border with the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a USD8 billion project that includes a deep seaport. The project in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region is set to be Southeast Asia’s largest ind...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will meet with Myanmar President to discuss the human rights situation in his country as it assumes the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2014, a top official said here on Thursday. Myanmar symbolically took over the ASEAN Chairmanshi...

The Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW) under the Karen National Union (KNU) has set down future plans to upgrade the health system within the year during its year-end meeting, which was held at the Thai-Myanmar border on February 12-15. P’doh Saw Eh Ka Lu Shwe Oo, head of the KDHW, tol...

Mogadishu, Somalia 27th June, 2015: The AMISOM Chief of Staff (CoS) Ambassador Epiphanie Kabushemeye on Saturday visited AMISOM soldiers admitted at the AMISOM Level 2 Hospital in Mogadishu. She also delivered a get well message from the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the AU Commission...