Japan has thrown its weight behind Myanmar’s railway development by funding the Yangon-Mandalay railway, according to the country’s foreign minister Taro Kono who held a joint press conference in the capital with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on January 12. The railroad upgrade programme ...

YANGON — Myanmar is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in an ambitious move to tackle chronic power shortages in the energy-starved country. With only one-third of the country’s 60 mill...

Karen Police burned confiscated methamphetamine tablets and opium in its attempts to fight illicit drug use. The Karen National Police Force (KNPF) under the Interior Department of the Karen National Union in Doo Pla Ya District, destroyed thousands of methamphetamine tablets (Ya Ma) and opium in an...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with governments and humanitarian partners in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to provide relief to the survivors of the Tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck the east coast of southern Africa on 14 and 15 March.

We must remove unelected representatives from legislatures and national reconciliation will make step by step through negotiations, said State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi during a speech titled “Democratic Transition in Myanmar: Challenges and Way Forward” delivered at the 43rd Singapore Lecture he...

The UK’s Government Department for International Development (DFID) have made an investment of over $1.9 million in a new project they are calling “Shwe Lan”, they plan to transform lending to Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (MSMEs) in Myanmar. The DaNa Facility, a DFID-funded program is...

Central Bank of Myanmar, which has a great market potential in the banking sector, will grant banking licenses to new foreign banks allowing them to provide services in the domestic market. “We are considering allowing more foreign banks. We have plans to start granting license to the most suitab...

Survivors in Mozambique are still trying to rebuild their lives. More assistance is needed to help them recover, and to support other countries affected by climate change.

UNHCR has mobilized displaced people to help reach others within their communities and better attend to their most pressing needs.