RANGOON — A discussion about military land confiscations was halted on Thursday in Burma’s Parliament, after a representative from the army interrupted the proceedings and urged other lawmakers to move onto another topic. Brig-Gen Kyaw Oo Lwin, who was appointed to the legislature and not elected...

RANGOON — Burma’s national census agency says that as of Sunday, 85 percent of the country’s estimated population had participated in the census, which ends on Thursday. However, critics have questioned the accuracy of the data, particularly concerning religion. “We will finish collecting census ...

The peace process is in trouble and a new way forward is needed to end the stalemates and posturing that have hampered negotiations. IT IS just over two years since the Union Solidarity and Development Party government and eight ethnic armed groups signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, as pa...

The Myanmar government temporarily shut down the Asia Highway on Thursday morning, following renewed fighting between government troops and ethnic Karen rebels in eastern Myanmar, The Irrawaddy reported. Exchanges of fire erupted around 5:30am between the Myanmar army and the Democratic Karen Ben...

The Asian Network for Free Elections Foundation, which observed Sunday’s general election, praised Myanmar people and the Union Election Commission for holding a peaceful, free and fair election. Mr Damaso G Magbual, President of the Asian Network for Free Elections Foundations (ANFREL), said at a p...

REFUGEES STUDYING IN SCHOOLS IN BORDER CAMPS WANT THE MYANMAR GOVT TO RECOGNISE THEIR EDUCATION An old cartoon is circulating on social media. It depicts a tree, a schoolmaster and assorted creatures lined up including a goldfish, an elephant and a seal. The schoolmaster says, "For a fair selecti...

Myanmar’s incoming government will work hard to build peace with separatist ethnic armies left out of a cease-fire agreement signed in October, National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in a speech at the opening of a peace conference held in the capital Naypyitaw on Tuesday. ...

Myanmar Minister of Foreign Affairs cum Minister of the President's Office Aung San Suu Kyi has become the country's State Counselor in accordance with the state counselor bill, passed by both Houses and signed by President U Htin Kyaw Wednesday, according to U Zaw Htay, spokesman of the President's...

(CNN)Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of Amnesty International's highest honor in light of her "shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for," the UK-based rights group announced Tuesday. Amnesty's secretary general, Kumi Naidoo, wrote to Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, Sunday informing...

Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious pro-democracy party will take their seats in parliament on February 1, Myanmar’s speaker said on Wednesday, beginning a new era for a nation under army rule for decades. In a statement parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann announced that “all MPs [are] to start ...