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Suu Kyi party `wins 43 seats` in Myanmar elections

Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi`s party won almost all the seats it contested in Myanmar elections, becoming the ...

Myanmar bans mining near major rivers for environment reason

Myanmar has banned mining of mineral resources along the country`s four major river courses or near these river banks ...

Myanmar invites US, EU, UN election observers

Myanmar has invited election observers from the United States, the European Union and the United Nations for its ...

Suu Kyi says Myanmar officials censored speech

Myanmar`s authorities have censored one of Aung San Suu Kyi`s key election campaign speeches by removing her criticism ...

Myanmar official calls for good literary quality in democracy transformation - (d)

Myanmar Minister of Information and culture U Kyaw Hsan has called on the literature sector to be of good quality in ...

Huge Myanmar crowds greet Suu Kyi in Mandalay

Myanmar`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted by the largest crowds of her election campaign so far as she ...

Overseas myanmars with foreign citizenship to be re-allowed home citizenship

Myanmar nationals residing overseas with foreign citizenship for various reasons are now allowed to return home and ...

IMF sees Myanmar as Asia's next economic bright spot

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently commended Myanmar's economic reform efforts, saying that the nation ...

US pleased with myanmar reforms progress

A key US senator on Sunday said the United States was "pleased with the progress" of Myanmar`s reforms but urged the ...

Italy to help preserve Myanmar cultural heritage

The Italian government will provide 400,000 euros with a work capacity building project launched by the UNESCO for ...

Released Myanmar activists pledge to fight on

Free at last after years locked up by the junta, prominent Myanmar dissidents have vowed to keep up their fight for ...

Myanmar`s Suu Kyi could get govt role: official

Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi could be given a job in a nominally-civilian government if she is elected ...

Hague calls for reform on historic Myanmar visit

British Foreign Secretary William Hague Thursday called on Myanmar to release all its political prisoners and make ...

Democratization process in Myanmar cannot be forced

It is not possible to force the democratization process in Myanmar and therefore Indonesia will only make phased ...

RI offers security cooperation to Myanmar

Indonesia has offered to Myanmar to cooperate in the security field, the Foreign Affairs Ministry here said on ...