Myanmar
May 18, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar--Myanmar's president has pardoned at least 20 political prisoners just ahead of a historic visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides'...
May 02, 2013
KYAW BOI LAY, Myanmar--Hundreds of police and troops restored order in central Myanmar on May 1 after a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence in which one man was killed after...
May 01, 2013
HIROSHIMA--One of Myanmar's leading human rights activists who recently visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for the first time said her nation can learn a lot from...
May 01, 2013
Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd. has established a joint venture to provide IT services in Myanmar.
April 30, 2013
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar--In Myanmar's central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims who lost their homes in a deadly rampage by Buddhist mobs in March.
April 30, 2013
Toshiba Corp. said its branch office in Yangon will start operations in May as part of a push to expand the company's business in Myanmar.
April 28, 2013
MANDALAY, Myanmar--Wrapped in a saffron robe, Buddhist monk Wirathu insists he is a man of peace. Never mind his nine years in prison for inciting deadly violence against...
April 25, 2013
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., one of Asia's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, announced April 25 it will begin sales of its new vehicles in Myanmar.
April 23, 2013
YANGON--Myanmar's president announced an amnesty on April 23 for about 100 prisoners, a senior official said, of whom 56 were confirmed as political detainees by a group...
April 23, 2013
LUXEMBOURG--The European Union agreed on April 22 to lift all sanctions on Myanmar, except for an arms embargo, despite a Human Rights Watch report which accused authorities of ...
April 22, 2013
BANGKOK--Human Rights Watch on April 22 accused authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine State of crimes against humanity in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims last year, ...
April 19, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Japan’s support for Myanmar’s move towards democratization in a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s largest...
April 18, 2013
MONG PAN, Myanmar--A winding, bumpy route through the misty mountains of eastern Myanmar is being paved into a smooth two-lane highway, the type of road commonly found in other ...
April 17, 2013
Myanmar's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on April 17 on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was "not a magician" and will not be...
April 16, 2013
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry shares the same initials as former U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). Kerry aspired to become a politician...
April 15, 2013
KYOTO--Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said April 15 that her country needs more women in politics to reverse the value system that produced decades of military rule in her...
April 14, 2013
Noriko Otsu leafs through a photo album at her home in Kyoto and recalls her reluctant words of advice to a friend the last time they were together in Japan in the mid-1980s.
April 13, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi, standard-bearer of Myanmar's fledgling embrace of democracy, arrived in Japan on April 13 for her first visit in 27 years--and was clearly eager to catch up...
April 13, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, starts a week-long visit to Japan on April 13 at the invitation of the...
April 12, 2013
When Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, head of Myanmar’s largest opposition party, arrives in Japan on April 13 for the first time in 27 years, she will be returning with...