Not only will the National League for Democracy form the next government in 2016, but the next parliament will see more than 100 political prisoners in its ranks. Burma’s Nov. 8 election saw a landslide victory by the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), but the result is historic for ...

The Mon State government has allocated Ks 50 million to hold the 71st Mon National Day ceremonies on the first waning day of Tabodwe (February 1). “The Mon State will provide Ks 50 million in total. The central [ceremony] won’t get everything. We will give two million kyats to each township,” sai...

Pretoria – South Africa has donated computers and vehicles to the transitional government of the Central African Republic to assist the country in the upcoming elections. “The donation of 15 vehicles and 1200 computers follows a request from the Secretary General of the United Nations to Presiden...

The Myanmar government is developing a plan to redistribute vacant or fallow plots of land to rural landless people willing to farm the land. The Union Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Dr. Aung Thu told The Irrawaddy on Monday the government had obtained US$4.19 million from the...

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...