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The Thai election verdict, rejecting military-monarchy establishment, is a lesson for all the dictatorship regimes
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Seawater raced into more than 10 low-lying wards near the shore as Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine state
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Super cyclone Mocha made landfall along the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts on Sunday
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The region, comprising 8 states, has some peculiar characteristics which are different from other regions of the country
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A Twitter user shared a picture of a plate of bhindi noodles that was served at a restaurant in Myanmar’s Yangon
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The seizure of 39 lakh tablets of specific brands of decongestant and antihistamine worth Rs 390.4 crore was made from a house in east Mizoram's Champhai town bordering Myanmar
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A pilot project by Bangladesh and Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation before this monsoon could well be the first step
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Aizawl: Over 6,000 children of Myanmarese refugees, who have taken shelter in Mizoram since March last year following the military coup there, are enrolled in government and private schools across the state, officials said. Mizoram Education Department officials said that of the 6,195 Myanmarese children, 5,221 were enrolled in government schools, 184 in government-aided institutes […]
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Hyderabad: Ninety per cent of the world’s jade is mined in Myanmar. Myanmar’s jade industry is worth billions of dollars annually. Most stones are bought by Chinese traders. However, the industry is plagued by corruption resulting in illegal export of the country’s natural wealth. Read on… Myanmar produces 90% of the world’s jade. Most of […]
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Hyderabad: Two senior paediatric cardiologists from Hyderabad, Dr Nageswara Rao Koneti and Dr Shweta Bakhru, both from Rainbow Children’s Heart Institute (RCHI), were specially invited to perform a heart procedure on the grandchild of the Prime Minister of Myanmar. Dr Nageswara Rao and Dr Shweta travelled to Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, last week, […]
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It is ‘constructive disengagement’ that the people of Myanmar are asking for in their struggle to restore their fledgling democracy
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They were stranded in the Andaman islands after their boat developed serious technical snags on February 18, a week after it sailed out of Bangladesh
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The five-point consensus reached by Asean on Myanmar can form an ideal framework for the way forward
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Three people died when the armed forces suppressed a protest in Monywa, in the Sagaing region on Saturday morning, dpa news agency quoted the Myanmar Now website as saying in a report.
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Kachin Independence Army, the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organisation, attacked a police station in Shwegu township and seized weapons and supplies, and wounded one police officer
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In the advisory issued to the DCs of Chandel, Tengoupal, Kamjong, Ukhrul and Churachandpur on March 26, Special Secretary (Home) H Gyan Prakash also asked them to stop Aadhaar enrolment exercise.
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The killings quickly drew international condemnation, with multiple diplomatic missions to Myanmar releasing statements that mentioned the killing of civilians Saturday, including children
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The army's seizure of power halted the Southeast Asian nation's move toward democracy that began when Suu Kyi's party took office in 2016 for its first term, after more than five decades of military rule.
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Witnesses outside Insein Prison in Yangon on Wednesday saw busloads of mostly young people, looking happy with some flashing the three-finger gesture of defiance.
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No privately owned newspapers were published this past week for the first time in eight years, following bans and voluntary suspensions.