The Thailand-based AAPPB prisoner-monitoring group reports an increase in people being interrogated and jailed for resisting land confiscations and forced evictions, often by the military or businesses with close government connections. ...

Aung San Suu Kyi urged investors who are planning to put money into Burma to do so with an awareness of the need for improvement in the lives of ordinary Burmese people. ''Please think deeply for us,'' she said. ...

The democracy leader who spent 15 years in detention during Myanmar's fight against dictatorship will give a speech this week at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, a sprawling city that boomed as Suu Kyi's Myanmar wilted under sanctions and decades of inept army rule. ...

A strain of malaria that is not treatable by the most effective drug is now knocking on the Thai-Burma (also known as Myanmar) border and growing in its drug resistance. According to Reuters, there is danger that the drug-resistant version may spread through India and Africa. A new study published in The Lancet showed how the plasmodium falciparum form of the disease, which was observed in Cambodia as early ...

Burma's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has won a by-election for parliament, her party says, after a landmark vote that saw 45 seats contested. Ms Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said she had easily won in Kawhmu. Official results are not expected until later in the week. In a statement, she urged supporters to show restraint in their celebrations. The vote is a key test of politic ...

Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time. Video from Reuters Supporters waving her political party's flag came out in force to catch a glimpse of the 66-year-old Nobel Peace laureate as her convoy crawled from the main ci ...

Shortly after her aging aircraft rattled its way off the runway and into the skies of southern Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi crossed the aisle to where three orange-robed Buddhist monks were seated in the first row. [caption id="attachment_5336" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she makes her way to the airport after her visit in Pakokku Township in t ...

These girls show that Myanmar [previously Burma] has beauty within its' borders. [caption id="attachment_4861" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Sofia, a new fashion face"][/caption] It is easy to forget  that the government carried out a deadly crackdown on protests led by Buddhist monks in 2007 and restricted foreign aid in the aftermath of a cyclone that killed more than 100,000 people but let's ho ...

A senior Myanmar monk has been ordered to leave his monastery in Rangoon because of a speech he gave at a pro-democracy event. [caption id="attachment_3711" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="Shwe Nya War Sayardaw is an abbot at Rangoon's Sadhu monastery"][/caption] Shwe Nya War Sayardaw, a well-known critic of the government, addressed the National League for Democracy at a recent event in Mandalay ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to improve ties with Myanmar [Burma] if current reforms continue. [caption id="attachment_2368" align="alignright" width="300" caption=""Aung San Suu Kyi has been very supportive of Hillary Clinton's visit""][/caption] After meeting Myanmar President Thein Sein, Mrs Clinton said the US would reward Burma's leaders if they kept "moving in the ri ...