A prominent armed group visits Rangoon and urges the government to unconditionally release all remaining political prisoners.
Terrified passengers on the crashed flight that killed two people on Tuesday had just 90 seconds to escape from the burning plane.
Survivors of a plane crash that killed two people in Shan State on Tuesday have been transferred to Rangoon’s largest public hospital.
The Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards, celebrating the best of the nation’s movie-making talent, return to Rangoon after four years in the new capital Naypyidaw.
The completion of the long-awaited India-Burma-Thailand highway connection should be a key priority for the three involved nations, says Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Burmese President Thein Sein travels to New Delhi to join regional leaders for a two-day Asean-India Commemorative Summit amid protests from democracy activists.
Local authorities arrest 10 activists in Mandalay and Monywa for joining protests against the Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Division.
The government of Burma’s northwestern Chin State is scheduled to discuss adding Chin National Day and Chin State Day to its official calendar.
Burma’s government lashed out at news broadcaster Al Jazeera on Friday over a report that warns of Rohingya genocide, saying it was “exaggerated and fabricated.”
Aung San Suu Kyi says that anger over the Letpadaung cooper mine in Sagaing Division stems largely from the way the project was set up.
Thirty-two Buddhist monks and three other activists suffering burns from the brutal anti-copper mine protest crackdown are due to be discharged from Mandalay General Hospital.
The Chin National Front will have a second round of Union-level peace talks with President’s Office Minister Aung Min in Rangoon.
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says using force to drive off peaceful protesters at Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Division was unnecessary.
Protesting gold miners from the Moehti Moemi area of Mandalay Division are sent back to Yamaethin Township after a deal was struck with the authorities.
Burma’s main opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urges India to strongly support her country’s nascent democratic transition during her Jewarharlal Nehru’s Memorial Lecture.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi uses her first visit to India in nearly four decades to express hope for a strengthened bilateral relationship.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin her first trip to India in nearly four decades in the capital New Delhi on Tuesday.
Police in Kalay, Sagaing Division, arrest 19 young men suspected of illegally entering Burma from a neighboring country.
More than 100 land owners in Chaung Tha Village, Irrawaddy Division, hold a protest march to win back land confiscated for a hotel project.
In defiance of a trespassing act and a police roadblock, copper mine protesters in Sagaing march to a Buddhist pagoda atop the Letpadaung mountain range.
