Burma’s rice exports rose more than 40 percent in the 2014-15 fiscal year, with shipments to regional heavyweight China dominating the trade despite Beijing’s official ban on imports of the product from Burma, according to data provided by Soe Tun, the chairman of the Myanmar Farmers Association and...

THAI investments are expected to promote tourism in Taninthayi Region, according to Thai media. A Thai company called Pongpipat has been building an international standard hotel in Taninthayi with an investment of US$125 million in an effort to capitalize on the promising tourism industry in the ...

At least seven people have been killed after fighters with links to al-Qaeda attacked an army camp in central Mali near the Mauritania border, according to local officials and a UN military source. The attack occurred in the early morning hours in Nampala, a local official told AFP news agency on...

More than 30 people dead after explosion rips through crowds in eastern city of Yola. At least 32 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a blast at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, the Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. The explosion ...

At least six people have been killed after two suspected child suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in northeast Nigeria, witnesses say. Sunday's assault was the second attack involving young girls strapped with explosives. The blasts struck around mid-afternoon at an open market sel...

A Karen National Union (KNU) delegation urged Burma’s President Thein Sein on Wednesday during a meeting in the capital to run for president in the next election as he has been deeply involved with the peace process negotiations. Led by the organisation’s chairman Mutu Say Poe and General Saw Joh...