Globe Trot: Soft sell in Washington for Myanmar democracy

Myanmar's army chief marked Armed Forces Day by saying the military will continue to play a political role during the country's transition to democracy.

YANGON, May 12 (Xinhua) -- The central peace making group of the Myanmar government and the Shan State Army (SSA)-North reached a four-point agreement in Tangyang, Shan state following talks between them, the Union Daily reported Sunday. The ...

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has met with two officials from the Myanmar Peace Center as well as representatives of the Border Guard Force (BGF) in an attempt to resolve differences which last month led to a spate of armed ...

While the Myanmar army has continued fierce military offensives in Shan State, its troops have been guilty of rape and conscripting women as porters at gunpoint, according to a report released by the Palaung Women's Organization (PWO) on May 6.

BANGKOK POSTThai Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has blamed "dishonest and bad" Thais for sparking Myanmar's territorial claim over three small islands in the overlapping marine area between the countries. He said Thai gangs were hiding illegal workers ...

President Thein Sein had declared an emergency in the affected areas of central Myanmar on Friday and deployed army troops to the worst-hit city, Meikhtila, where at least 32 people were killed. According to the U.N., more than 12,000 people were displaced.

Myanmar government forces have been accused of murdering three off-duty Palaung soldiers and raping two local women in northern Shan State. Taang National Liberation Army (TNLA). (Photo: PSLF) According to the Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF), ...

The Army is instigating violence against minorities to gain majority support, which Aung San Suu Kyi does not want to lose either. Together, they play a fatal game Last month, as the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar spread from the western Rakhine ...

A Myanmarese national was arrested yesterday when he tried to intrude an Army cantonment here.