MYANMAR: Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya Muslims capsize

A total of 17 seamen have been rescued in capsizal of a Myanmar oil vessel which collided in Yangon River with an overseas cargo vessel loaded with cars Sunday, the local 7-Day Daily reported Monday.The 17 seamen were rescued by Myanmar naval ship ...

DHAKA/YANGON — At least 11 people were killed after category-one cyclone Mahasen made its landfall on the Bangladeshi coast and moved to neighbouring Myanmar yesterday, officials said. Five people were killed in Barguna district, four in Patukahli ...

YANGON, May 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 58 people out of 100 fleeing from a cyclonic storm went missing as a motor boat capsized off western Myanmar's Rakhine coast Monday night, official sources said Tuesday evening. The Bengali-Muslims on board the ...

YANGON -- A 12-member senior-level delegation of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) party left here for Kunming to pay the first ever 10-day study visit to four cities of China. After Kunming, the delegation will proceed to Dehong, Fuzhou ...

YANGON, Myanmar, May 11 (UPI) -- The storm threatens about 60,000 people in camps in low-lying areas of the country near the Andaman Sea, The New York Times reported Saturday. Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

YANGON, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Six signatory nations to a pact on drug control cooperation -- Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam reaffirmed in a declaration on Thursday their commitment to overcome and eliminate drug problems in the ...

Myanmar's largest city is on track to become a mega city by 2040, according to speakers at the Urban Development Conference in Yangon's Traders Hotel on May 6. The Hledan overpass across Pyay Road, Yangon opened for traffic on April 10, 2013. [Photo ...

Yangon - Myanmar troops confiscated grenades and other weapons from a border hide-out used by suspected drug traffickers after an earlier shoot-out killed 13 policemen and members of their patrol, state media reported on Saturday. The gunbattle took ...

YANGON, Myanmar — The day San Zaw Htwe was arrested he tried to chew through the leg of the wooden chair he was shackled to. He could hear a river outside. He figured he could swim away and escape the little room and the big men and the terrible ...