Pye, Burma News

Myanmar Army commander-in-chief General Min Aung Hlaing, right, greets Supreme Commander General Tanasak Patimapragorn during his official visit to Thailand at the Supreme Command yesterday.

Asean aims to encourage its six trading partners under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to liberalise more products and services.

A senior United States military officer has used an address to leaders of the armed forces in Nay Pyi Taw to outline the benefits of civilian leadership of the military, as Washington continues to push for the Tatmadaw to come under civilian control as part of a larger process of professionalisation.

Territorial disputes in the South China Sea have highlighted the ongoing tensions between China and countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, with the US also weighing in recently with its proposals for a bigger military presence in the region.

A tiny bit of the ornate wood carvings and golden architecture of Yangon's ancient Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar's most sacred place.

Myanmar said its plan to completely eradicate the country from drugs has been put back five years to 2019, as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed that Myanmar's opium production rose by 26 per cent in 2013.

At Myanmar's only annual gems fair in Nay Pyi Taw, sales are expected to hit US$1.5 billion this year, down from US$2.4 billion last year, due to lower supplies.

Myanmar's ministry of finance will shape a capital market in the country after joining the Financial Services Agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency , official media reported Wednesday.

New Delhi, June 25 - Myanmar is likely to receive a lot of attention from India's new government, in the form of cross-border bus services linking it to the landlocked northeast and better air connectivity, as New Delhi seeks to ramp up ties with its strategically important eastern neighbour that is seen as a bridge between South Asia and Southeast ... (more)

For more than a century the Road to Mandalay has evoked longing, nostalgia and the exotic East for artists ranging from Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell to Frank Sinatra and Robbie Williams.

Giving a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's thrust to boost connectivity with neighbouring South Asian countries, India is set to launch a weekly cross-border bus service between Imphal in Manipur and Mandalay in central Myanmar.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has urged human rights activists who have received death threats for criticising controversial new religious laws to go to police.

Hundreds of ethnic Palaung in Shan State's Kutkai Township have fled their homes after the Burmese Army fired artillery on their village, with locals reporting that one house was burned to the ground on Sunday amid ongoing clashes between the military and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army .

Under the agreement with Eden Group, two of the Group's recently opened properties in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, and on Ngapali beach in Rakhine State will be rebranded as Hilton Nay Pyi Taw and Hilton Ngapali Beach Resort respectively, and are scheduled to welcome their first guests as Hiltons in October.

The 12th Conference of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information and the 3rd AMRI+3 meeting ended in Myanmar's capital of Nay Pyi Taw Thursday with a joint media statement calling for enhancing information and media cooperation.

President Thein Sein has urged the anti-corruption commission to act freely in accordance with law during a meeting with ministers and deputy ministers at the presidential palace in Nay Pyi Taw on June 11. The president called for a clean government and administration, congratulating some departments for improving and reprimanding others for being ... (more)

Mira! There is so much hotel news flying around this week, we just don't have enough time to focus on all the new hotels news.

The Hilton Hotels and Resorts group signed agreements to manage five Myanmar hotels Wednesday, with the first two scheduled to be opened in October.