Myanmar

DHAKA–Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya refugees to Burma within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of ...

YANGON–Burmese prosecutors sought charges on Wednesday against two Reuters reporters under the Official Secrets Act, which carries a ...

YANGON–Rohingya Muslim insurgents said on Saturday that 10 Rohingya found in a mass grave in Burma's troubled Rakhine ...

BANGKOK–Humanitarian workers and journalists should be given free access to Burma's Rakhine State, where violence has prompted some ...

OTTAWA—The transformation of Myanmar from dictatorship to democracy—and how Canada can help smooth the road ahead—will be the ...

The Obama administration’s policy towards Burma is an indication of the importance of ethnic minority issues in U.S.-Burma ...

Within the next couple of months Burma (also known as Myanmar) is expected to convene a conference to ...

The party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi officially confirmed Thursday that she will not become Myanmar's ...

Following her party's landmark election win, Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to give her desperately ...

Following the landslide election result for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) earlier this month, ...

A landslide near a jade mine in northern Burma killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging ...

Burma's transition to greater democracy after decades of military rule surged ahead Wednesday as opposition leader Aung San ...

Burma's military-backed ruling party appeared set Tuesday for an overwhelming electoral defeat, but a victory by Aung San ...

The latest on landmark elections in Burma.

Though championed worldwide as a pro-democracy icon, there is something Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to do ...

With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Burma's historic general election that will test ...

Burma's president says his government and the military, which gave up power only five years ago, will respect ...

Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that she will be the true power above the ...

The sweeping reforms Burma announced in 2011 after a half-century of crushing military rule seemed too good to ...

Residents of this town in northern Burma's opium country became their own drug investigators out of frustration with ...

Eighty one Chinese lawyers signed an emergency statement urging Chinese police to shoulder responsibility for the disappearance of ...

The charter for the Association of Southeast Asia Nations emphasizes economic growth and principles that support cooperation, renunciation ...

In an attempt to find a collective approach to sign Burma's Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), representatives of 15 ...

The sudden removal of one of Burma’s most powerful men sent shockwaves through the diplomatic community in the ...

The very word “Burma” was once shorthand for a brutal military dictatorship, but things have now changed dramatically.

Burma has ratified the chemical weapons convention, bringing the treaty a step closer to its goal of acceptance ...

From declining worker protections to violent labor trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger ...