Myanmar
October 22, 2012
NAYPYITAW--Myanmar's reformist president held his first press conference for local media in a national milestone after years of secrecy and censorship by the former military...
October 20, 2012
BANGKOK -- Myanmar's military, long criticized for human rights abuses, may be invited as an observer at annual U.S-Thai joint military exercise next year, officials in...
October 17, 2012
NTT Communications (Thailand) Co. has become the first foreign telecommunications company to open a branch office in Myanmar, parent company NTT Communications Corp. (NTT Com)...
October 16, 2012
All Nippon Airways Co. has resumed Japan's first scheduled flights to Myanmar in 12 years, and in a sign of expectations for business opportunities there ANA is using a...
October 16, 2012
YANGON--Thousands of Buddhist monks marched in Myanmar's two biggest cities on Oct. 15 to protest against efforts by the world's biggest Islamic body to help Rohingya Muslims...
October 14, 2012
Japan has long been considered by many an "isolationist" country in regards to accepting refugees from other nations. But nowadays, an increasing number of displaced people are ...
October 09, 2012
Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp. plans to build a factory in Myanmar that will produce 20,000 to 30,000 cars a year and push development of one of the world’s largest...
October 02, 2012
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank will consider extending loans to Myanmar, which have been suspended since the late 1980s.
October 02, 2012
SITTWE, Myanmar--There are no Muslim faithful in most of this crumbling town's main mosques anymore, no Muslim students at its university.
September 27, 2012
NEW YORK--Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Myanmar President Thein Sein on Sept. 26 that the United States would take steps to ease the U.S. ban on imports from the...
September 22, 2012
BEIJING -- Myanmar's transition to democracy will not change the country's traditional friendship with China, Myanmar President Thein Sein was cited as telling Chinese Vice...
September 21, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar -- After months of negotiations and failed promises, a proposed multi-billion dollar Myanmar port and special economic zone that could transform Southeast...
September 20, 2012
WASHINGTON--Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House and received the highest congressional award on Sept. 19.
September 19, 2012
WASHINGTON--Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi warned on Sept. 18 that reforms in her country had cleared only the "first hurdle" and said she supported an easing of...
September 18, 2012
WASHINGTON--The United States, after years of decrying oppression against Myanmar's democracy leader, gets to celebrate Aung San Suu Ky's freedom as Secretary of State Hillary...
September 18, 2012
When it comes to investing, Myanmar is one of Asia's last frontier markets--and thus a risky proposition even as the country sheds decades of stagnation, mismanagement and...
September 17, 2012
YANGON--Myanmar may have released all of its remaining political prisoners in an amnesty for 514 detainees on Sept. 17, the main opposition party said, just over a week ahead...
September 15, 2012
YANGON, Myanmar -- A prominent Myanmar activist said Sept. 15 that he was canceling an upcoming trip to the United States to receive a democracy award, to show solidarity with...
September 13, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar--A law intended to accelerate foreign investment in Myanmar will be signed soon by the president after pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi helped kill a...
September 12, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar--A new foreign investment law should be promulgated in Myanmar soon, a senior minister said on Sept. 12, after lawmakers compromised on certain proposals...