The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Yangon - Myanmar and Laos strengthened relations with the signing of visa-exemption treaty for their respective citizens and a double-taxation avoidance agreement, state media reported Saturday. The two agreements were signed Friday in the military's...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yangon - The National Geographic Channel is due in Myanmar this month to shoot a documentary on the country's hard-working elephants, sources close to the project said Thursday. They will come here this month to document the state of Myanmar's domes...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yangon - Myanmar has opened discussions on building a railway link between its north-eastern Shan State and China's Yunnan province, media reports said Wednesday. The Myanmar-China railway link will connect Lashio, capital of Shan state in the north...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
YANGON, Myanmar -- A ferry boat has sunk after a collision in a river in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta, killing at least eight passengers and leaving more than three dozen missing.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Yangon - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked to meet the leader of the ruling military junta in a possible sign of easing political tension. Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, told General Than Shwe that she would like to meet the s...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091115/edit.htm#1 by Brig Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) Recent developments indicate that the international community has initiated the first steps to gradually open up to Myanmar. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, perhaps the most famous prisoner in the world after Nelson Mandela, has met Western diplomats in Yangon. Speculation is rife that sanctions may soon be lifted. India’s...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
[JURIST] Opposition pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed an appeal in Myanmar's highest court on Friday challenging the 18-month extension of her house arrest. The head of Suu Kyi's legal team Kyi Win said that now that the appeal has been submitted to the High Court, they must wait to learn whether the court will agree to hear the case. Earlier this week, it was reported that a Senior Burmese...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
YANGON (Reuters) - Lawyers for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday they had lodged an appeal against her house arrest with the Supreme Court but expected no rapid decision.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Myanmar will host an ASEAN Farmers' Week in Yangon in the last week of this month, aimed at promoting exchange of views and experiences among farmers in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), sources with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said on Thursday. Dozens of delegates from ASEAN member countries will attend the15th event running for five days from Nov....
Charlie Gilbert (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today is Armistice Day, which marks the 91st anniversary of the end of hostilities on the Western Front between the Allies and Germany. I fell silent for two minutes to think about Captain Arthur Dermot William Woollett, my great-grandfather (the soldier on the right, I think he looks a bit like me). He died on April 22nd, 1944 in Burma's Arakan region after being shot by a Japanese ambush party. Aged...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to issue an important and positive statement next week, her lawyer Nyan Win said Wednesday. Suu Kyi, who is still under house detention in her Yangon home, is expected to deliver the statem...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar's military junta has persuaded two ethnic minority armies to transform themselves into border guard forces, an important step toward holding a peaceful general election next year, state media claimed Wednesday. Ceremonies presided ...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Foreign ministry diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organiser her party for next year's elections Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may soon be released so she can play a role in next year's election, a senior Burmese diplomat has said. "There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party," Min Lwin, a director-general in the foreign ministry,...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
5 Nov 2009 The US sends a high-level delegation to Burma in advance of President Barack Obama's ASEAN summit next week, but little progress is expected any time soon, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch. By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch A high-level US delegation visited Burma on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, meeting with Prime Minister General Thein Sein and with opposition...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Yangon - Myanmar exported 670,000 tons of rice in the fiscal year that ended March 31 despite the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis and expected to export up to 1 million tons this fiscal year, media reports said Sunday. The export volume of ric...
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