Yangon, Burma News

KFC and a host of other American icons are finally coming to Burma as the army-ruled nation known officially as Myanmar ends five decades of isolation.

Myanmar president Thein Sein prepares to leave for a state visit to the US, the first by a Myanmar head of state in almost 47 years, at Yangon International airport, Myanmar, on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

YANGON: President Thein Sein's historic invitation to the White House is an endorsement of 'Myanmar's Spring' and a further sign that the former pariah's reforms are irreversible, a senior Myanmar official said.

Burma has freed at least 21 political prisoners in the country's latest amnesty that comes just days before President Thein Sein makes a landmark visit to the United States.

International oil and gas companies have called for transparent in the governance of Myanmar's energy sector as they desire to make investments in the resource-rich country, a local businessman who has insight of the industry said.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

Buddhists and Muslims are clashing with increasing ferocity in Myanmar , Thailand and Sri Lanka , where minority Islamic ethnic groups blame racism by majority Buddhists more than religious intolerance.

In a 2011 file photo, birds fly as a porter pushes his cart at Yangon's river port.

Kolkata, May 15 : Chidi Edeh scored a hat-trick as East Bengal romped into the quarter-finals of the AFC Cup with a 5-1 demolition of Myanmar's Yangon United here Wednesday.

RANGOON, Burma - Thomas Tun, a retired government official, takes a daily stroll down his Rangoon street to buy up to five newspapers from a sidewalk vendor.

"I feel peace now, but I wanted to experience it more," Burma's former spymaster, one of the most feared men in Burma under the previous military regime, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday.

A child uses a World Food Program bag to shelter from the rain at Bawdupha camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims, near Sittwe, Arakan State.

Burma's economy is in danger of imitating its floundering western neighbor Bangladesh rather than its more dynamic eastern neighbor Thailand.

Myanmar will exhibit a wide variety of rice for the first time at Kunming Trade Fair in China as a bid to boost the market shares, according to Myanmar Rice and Paddy Traders Association.

Myanmar authorities have attempted to force Rohingya refugees in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, to move closer to beach areas as the cyclone Mahasen approaches the exposed coast.

Myanmar's reformist President Thein Sein will visit the White House next week, the first such trip by a Myanmar head of state in almost 47 years and a sign of warming ties.

Myanmar's government says ethnic Shan guerrillas have attacked a state oil and gas company compound near the Chinese border, leaving two dead and three wounded.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

Nu Chaw Chaw, an 11-year-old from Yangon, Myanmar was born with a club foot. Despite two surgeries, she was still extremely crippled and walked on the side of her foot.