Myanmar's former President Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. Thein Sein's ordination as a monk took place Monday, officials said, four days after he presided over a historic transition of power to the former opposition party ...
After decades of struggle, hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) are set to form Myanmar's ruling party on Monday, with enough seats in parliament to choose the first democratically elected government since the military took power in ...
Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian nation's first free nationwide election in 25 years, its biggest stride yet in a journey from dictatorship to democracy. The party of opposition ...
Myanmar President Thein Sein had tried and failed at least twice before to topple his archrival Shwe Mann, but when armed police burst into the headquarters of the country's ruling party late on Aug. 12 he finally succeeded. Police piled the mobile phones and computers ...
The small wooden boats leave the shores of western Myanmar nearly every day, overloaded with desperate Rohingya Muslims who are part of one the largest boat exoduses in Asia since the Vietnam War. Helping them on their way: Myanmar's own security forces, who are profiting ...
Visiting Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota has met with Myanmar President Thein Sein at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, state media reported Tuesday. The meeting Monday focused on infrastructure development projects in Myanmar, including upgrading airports and rail services, electric power generation, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Myanmar President Thein Sein on a visit to Myanmar on May 26 and pledged ¥91 billion in fresh aid to Myanmar — ¥51 billion in loans and ¥40 billion in grants — and waived another ¥190 billion in ...
Prime Minister Abe pledges ¥91 billion in fresh aid to Myanmar and waives another ¥190 billion in debt to support growth and win investment chances for Japan Inc.
Shinzo Abe spoke of his personal bond with Myanmar during his official visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister in 36 years, as he sought to boost Japan's presence and tap its significant growth potential. Pledging fresh aid worth ¥91 billion and canceling roughly ...
The military that ran Myanmar for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three years ago was considered one of the world's most repressive said Sunday. The ...
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It's a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became ...
