YANGON (Reuters) - Faced with a shortage of small banknotes, people in Myanmar are resorting to bartering cigarettes, shampoo and other items. The ...
The singer smashes his guitar to pieces on the stage as thousands of spiky-haired punk fans cheer loudly -- a rare display of ...
Myanmar's supreme court began hearing an appeal on Monday against the extended house arrest of detained opposition leader and pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The 64-year-old Suu Kyi was ordered in August to spend another 18 months in detention after being ...
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal against the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced in August to a further 18 months in detention for breaking a security law. No ...
Myanmar has charged 128 foreign fishermen with violating immigration laws after they were arrested last month for illegal fishing, an official said Sunday. The group, currently held in Yangon's notorious Insein jail, was made up mostly of Indonesians and included 14 Filipinos, ...
Members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party sell portraits of their leader outside the party's headquarters during a celebration to mark the 89th anniversary of the country's National Day Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, in Yangon, ...
YANGON (Reuters) - A top U.S. official held rare talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Wednesday as part of Washington's highest-level visit to the isolated army-ruled country in 14 years. The Nobel Peace Prize winner met United ...
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities have arrested up to 50 people including journalists, political activists and students in a security crackdown this month in its biggest city, a Thailand-based human rights group said on Friday. The arrests include 10 journalists along with ...
Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held a rare meeting with a minister of the ruling junta on Saturday, a day after a court rejected her appeal against her extended house arrest. The detained opposition leader met Aung Kyi, the labour ...
A boy wears a T-shirt printed with photos of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her father General Aung San during the 21st celebration of the founding anniversary of National League for Democracy Party-NLD at the party's headquarters Sunday, Sept. ...
The United States has protested to Myanmar's military government over the alleged mistreatment of an American citizen held on suspicion of inciting unrest, the US embassy in Yangon said Friday. Myanmar-born Kyaw Zaw Lwin, alias Nyi Nyi Aung, was detained on arrival ...
The United States embassy in Myanmar said Tuesday that it has been allowed a visit to an American citizen held in the country since his detention at an airport almost three weeks ago. A spokesman for the embassy told AFP that Kyaw ...
