Myanmar

Last month in Ly Thai To park in central Hanoi, a group of about 1,000 young people wearing rainbow bandanas and carrying...

Britain has launched a push to revive relations with Myanmar’s military, with the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff visiting the...

While some of the world’s biggest professional services firms have rushed into Myanmar to set up shop, the big management...

Buddhist mobs armed with sticks and machetes burnt Muslim homes on Wednesday for a second day in the northern Myanmar city...

YANGON, May 28 – Muslims and Buddhists clashed in Myanmar’s northern city of Lashio on Tuesday, witnesses said, as a wave of...

George Soros has invested close to £50m through his fund management group into Hyperoptic, the British fibre broadband...

When Thein Sein arrives in Washington on Monday as the first Myanmar president for almost half a century to visit the US...

A Muslim Rohingya man works on constructing a tent after arriving back to a camp for internally displaced people in the...

Friday's picks from beyondbrics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the ex-generals must overcome their past; Qatar is being nudged aside...

If a single image captures the scope of Myanmar’s sweeping transition, it is the photograph of opposition leader and Nobel...

Internally displaced Rohingya women sit in the back of a truck ready to leave their camp in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine...

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, May 16 - Cyclone Mahasen buffeted Bangladesh’s low-lying coast on Thursday, killing six people after...

Rohingya women sit in front of their relief tent at the Mansi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of...

A Rohingya boy wraps himself with a sarong as he walks in the rain at a makeshift camp for displaced Rohingya people in...

Christian churches dot the leafy streets of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin, Myanmar’s northern most state. Unlike the...

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has called on UK university leaders to help her country rebuild its higher...

The abrupt exit of one of Myanmar’s leading reformist ministers from the helm of the government’s powerful investment...

Tuesday's picks from beyondbrics: can renewable energy pick up the slack in South Africa? Myanmar's hard grind; China's...

As I dragged my luggage through the long terminal of the ridiculously hot and humid Yangon airport a few days ago, I thought...

Aerosmith wrote a hit single about “Livin’ on the Edge” but it seems that Jakarta, which has one of Southeast Asia’s hottest...

As I dragged my luggage through the long terminal of the ridiculously hot and humid Yangon airport a few days ago, I thought...

Muslims sit near their destroyed homes after riots broke out in a village at Oakkan town, about 100 km north of Yangon, on...

Ford joined the growing stream of US companies investing in Myanmar by announcing plans to open a full-service showroom and...

YANGON - Rioters attacked a mosque and Muslim businesses in central Myanmar on Tuesday, police said, the nearest a series of...

A worker polishes a Ford car during an event by the US carmaker in Yangon. Ford announced plans on Tuesday to enter into...

Hla Hla May, a Rohingya Muslim woman displaced by violence, holds her one-year-old daughter Roshan at a former rubber...

The Myanmar government has been urged to lift barriers to citizenship for some of the country’s estimated 800,000 stateless...

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EU foreign ministers on Monday lifted all but military-related sanctions against Myanmar from the end of the month, amid...

Apollo Tyres, the Indian tyre manufacturer which currently produces out of India, the Netherlands and South Africa, is now...

Monday's picks from beyondbrics: Brazil's boom has peaked; how to respond to a 'three-speed world'; missing Kim Jong-il; the...

Myanmar’s leaders will come under the spotlight this week with the EU expected to remove all but military-related sanctions,...

Myanmar has embarked on one of the most significant political transitions taking place globally. Unlike the Arab spring,...

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The 2,000-odd Moken people, or sea gypsies, live among the 800 islands of the Mergui archipelago off southern Myanmar. The...

The EU is set to lift its sanctions on Myanmar apart from an arms embargo next week, in a move that will encourage European...