SEAPA partner Mizzima News, a Burmese independent news agency based in New Delhi, India, reported that its Burmese-language website has been inaccessible since 27 July due to persistent and severe Dis…

Activists working on migrant issues here claim that corruption is deeply rooted among some Malaysian immigration officers who are handing over Burmese asylum seekers and refugees to human traffickers.

We are but halfway through 2008 yet it has already born witness to a sizeable shift in global power. The default western mindset remains that the western writ rules. That is hardly surprising; it has …

Myanmarese exiles, the international media, and certain first ladies have painted the power struggle in Myanmar as black-and-white, good versus evil. The reality is much more complicated. Multiple eth…

  Chiang Mai —  With no major outbreak reporting in Burma's cyclone hit areas, initial fears of 'second wave of death' have slowly subsided but farmers in several parts of Irrawaddy delta…

weekly, published in Rangoon.Several sources from computer universities said that the objective of the Yadanabon Cyber City project is to tighten control over Internet connections across the country a…

  New Delhi — In a strange move, Burma's Roadway Transport Supervision Committee has legally announced the rise of fares for express buses that are plying from Rangoon to other divisions and s…

Threats to children's wellbeing remain three months after storm Andrew Kirkwood, Save the Children Myanmar Country Director, discusses humanitarian efforts three months after Cyclone Nargis in an …

  New Delhi — Several farmers Cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta's Bogale Township, said they are forced to reduce the use of fertilizers on their paddy fields to nearly half the quantity they usuall…

Colombo: A Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry official says Australia and Myanmar would be allowed to join the South Asian Association of Regional Corporation (SAARC) as observers at its 15th annual session …