Two more daily newspapers published in Myanmar

Ford Motor said on Tuesday will open a showroom in Yangon by the end of the year, making it the first US automaker to enter Myanmar after the rollback of sanctions in the once junta-ruled nation.The firm will sell and service vehicles with a local ...

Myanmar's former capital, Yangon, boasts one of the most spectacular early-20th century urban landscapes in Asia. A century ago the country's former capital was one of the world's great trading cities and the legacy of that cosmopolitan past remains ...

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Like a proud father, Nay Aung opens up his MacBook Air to show me the Myanamar travel website he's built. But we wait 30 seconds for the site to load, and ...

YANGON, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Workers from 41 factories in Yangon' s Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone-3 have staged labor strike, demanding for wage increase, local daily reported Thursday. The striking workers demanded raising basic monthly pay to 20, ...

Myanmar President Thein Sein has arrived back in Yangon after paying a three-day state visit to the United States to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. He was welcomed back last night at the Yangon International Airport by Yangon Region ...

People visit the Shwedagon Paya in Yangon, Burma. Best Western is opening its first hotel in the country.(Photo: Drn )TagsMiddle EastYangonAung San Suu KyiMyanmarAsiaBest Western International has announced plans to open its first hotel in Burma.The ...

Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyitaw will be linked via the fiber network, with each city to enjoy transmission speed of 10Gbps. Sumitomo and two business allies, NEC and NTT Communications, have concluded a contract with the Myanmar government to build ...

YANGON (Myanmar): T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy 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 ...

Talismanic Nigerian Edeh Chidi struck a hat-trick and set up a couple more as East Bengal thrashed Yangon United of Myanmar 5-1 to enter the AFC Cup quarterfinal for the second time after 2004. It was Chidi (25th, 71st, 76th) who made his presence felt with a ...