Myanmar

News Hour: Delegates from one of Myanmar’s most heavily armed ethnic groups have stormed out of peace talks aimed at ushering in a new era of peace in the country, reports Aljazeera. Representatives of the powerful,...

News Hour: Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have gathered in the country’s capital for peace talks with the government aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives, reports Aljazeera....

News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference on Wednesday aimed at ending wars that have blighted the...

News Hour: Former UN chief Kofi Annan will advise Myanmar’s new government on resolving conflicts in Rakhine, a region divided on religious grounds and home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya, it was announced on Wednesday, reports...

News Hour: Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will pay an official visit to China from August 17 to 21 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced on...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Amara Bank (UAB) signed today a trade finance agreement to provide guarantees of up to $4 million a year to support trade in Myanmar. UAB is the...

News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi paid tribute to her independence hero father on Tuesday at a memorial attended for the first time by the army chief, a rare show of unity in the former...

News Hour: Rapid trade growth can help Myanmar reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity, according to a new report, Myanmar Diagnostic Trade Integration Study. Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce led the study and requested support from the...

News Hour: The Community-Based Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Care project, implemented through The Union Office in Myanmar, has been extended to ten additional areas, bringing its total reach to 33 townships across Myanmar, through a grant from...

News Hour: The Myanmar authorities must undertake a prompt, independent, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into the violent destruction of buildings in a mosque compound on Thursday in Bago Region in central Myanmar, said Amnesty International....