Pye, Burma News

Within hours, the 160 homes were destroyed. If you travel about 25 kilometres north along the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw Highway, turn off to the right at a red dirt road and drive for 20 minutes, you can still see the ruined bamboo cottages.

The Burma government's housing department is planning to build 30,000 new low-cost homes in townships on the outskirts of the country's largest city, an official said Wednesday.

It should have been an opportunity to build trust between the media and the military.

A Muslim woman carries her child and a bag of aid at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Sittwe in Rakhine state, western Myanmar.

Mar 07, Colombo: India said today that it has just received the United States-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka and it is currently being examined by the Indian officials in Geneva.

Angel Linn, executive editor of Pyi Myanmar Daily newspaper, is most concerned about the reform of China's education and online-business.

He said the confidence of the BIMSTEC member countries towards Nepal for the role it has to play in promoting the regional cooperation has been further enhanced with the handing over of the regional organisations chairmanship to Nepal.

Thailand is calling on Myanmar to use the Thai baht as a medium of exchange in the country's domestic trade in a bid to boost trade and investment between both countries.

Manmohan Singh raises a toast with Myanmar President Thein Sein at a dinner marking the third Bimstec summit in Myanmar on Monday.

NAY PYI TAW: Seeking to transform BIMSTEC grouping into a "vibrant regional entity", India called for greater cooperation in key areas such as security, energy, economy, connectivity and people-to-people contact.

By Arvind Padmanabhan, Nay Pyi Taw, March 4 : Even as the Sri Lankan Navy arrested 32 more Indian fishermen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue with the neighbouring country's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, here Tuesday, calling for a humane approach to the issue.

Manmohan Singh shakes hands with Sheikh Hasina and Mahinda Rajapaksa on the sidelines of the third Bimstec summit in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today thanked Bangladesh for hosting the Bimstec permanent secretariat and termed the opportunity as an "important milestone".

Heads of state and government of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation countries meet at the Myanmar's capital Nay-Pyi-Taw on the eve of Bimstec summit yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Myanmar today on a two-day visit to attend the third summit of the Bimstec .

Nay Pyi Taw , March 3: Manmohan Singh will balance India's security concerns with its pragmatic interests during his two-day trip to Myanmar to attend tomorrow's Bimstec summit and bid farewell to neighbourhood leaders.

The Myanmar Investment Commission expects that foreign direct investment in Burma will reach between US$4 billion to $5 billion in the coming 2014-15 fiscal year, with the country's telecommunications sector seen as a rising star in attracting overseas business interest.

Mar 03, Nay Pyi Taw: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw International Airport Monday afternoon to participate in the BIMSTEC Summit.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is welcomed on his arrival in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday to attend the 3rd BIMSTEC Summit.

Myanmar's foreign direct investment this financial year is set to more than double that of last year's to US$3.5 billion.