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China executes Myanmar drug lord for killing 13 sailors

Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2013, 14:40

China executed a Myanmarese drug lord, along with three other accomplices from Thailand and Laos, for murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011.

India offers Myanmar support in strengthening parliamentary practices

Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 22:38

India has offered to Myanmar support in strengthening parliamentary practices, conventions and procedures as it makes transition to democracy.

Myanmar committee to review political prisoners’ detention

Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2013, 14:16

Myanmar will be establishing a committee to review the detention of its remaining political prisoners.

Myanmar establishes diplomatic ties with Armenia

Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2013, 14:13

Armenia is the first country that Myanmar forged links in the new year of 2013 after Malawi, Bhutan, Luxembourg, Latvia, Estonia and Iceland in 2012.

Myanmar rebels, government to hold talks in China

Last Updated: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 13:01

Myanmar`s government and ethnic Kachin rebels say they will hold talks in China this week after some of the worst fighting in the country in years.

Burma abolishes 25-yr-old ban on public gatherings

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 14:48

The Burmese authorities have lifted a 25-year-old ban on public gatherings of more than five people.

AK Antony on two-day visit to Myanmar

Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 19:47

Strengthening mechanisms for joint border patrolling between India and Myanmar to curb activities of insurgent groups will be high on the agenda of Defence Minister AK Antony.

Kachin rebels in Myanmar allege new air attacks

Last Updated: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 08:24

Kachin ethnic rebels in northern Myanmar say air attacks by the military are continuing, but that the guerrillas still hold key positions protecting their main base.

Myanmar to allow daily private newspapers

Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2012, 16:10

Myanmar said it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964.

Sweater knit by Myanmar`s Suu Kyi sells for $50K

Last Updated: Friday, December 28, 2012, 15:37

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has not yet commented on the sale of the sweater a red, green and blue V-neck or explained its background.

UN envoy wraps up visit to strife-hit Myanmar areas

Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2012, 12:09

Several waves of clashes between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have left 115,000 people displaced, as well as more than 100 dead.

Myanmar’s govt fears Gambira `will lead protests`

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 12:02

Shin Gambira, now known as Nyi Nyi Lwin after disrobing, was freed in an amnesty in January, but says he has been rearrested several times since then.