Myanmar Travel News

US foreign policy has banned competitors of HostelBookers from offering accommodation in Cuba, Myanmar or Syria.

A Japanese film festival to strengthen the mutual friendship and boost cultural exchange between Japan and Myanmar will be launched in the two biggest cities of Yangon and Mandalay this month, according to the Japanese embassy here on Wednesday.

A 15-member cultural troupe from Myanmar will visit India's northeastern region Saturday to showcase their country's traditional art and culture, officials said here Friday.

The Myanmar tourism authorities Wednesday advised foreign tourists visiting the country to take good care of their health against usually hot weather.

A Korean language speech contest will be held in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon next month to boost language communication between peoples of Myanmar and Korea, according to the Embassy of South Korea here Wednesday.

Foreign tourists voted Bangkok the most attractive city to visit among 10 of 11 member cities of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 , Thai News Agency reported.

Myanmar's military-ruled government may release pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi soon so she can play a role in next year's general elections, according to a senior Myanmar diplomat.

Japan urged Myanmar on Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, adding it was ready to provide more aid if democratisation in the country advanced.

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Myanmar say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but the junta's plans to hold 2010 elections are casting a shadow that could disrupt the delicate process.

Myanmar will launch a one-year project to fight malaria disease in country's Rakhine state, Bago and Magway divisions under Japanese grassroot grant assistance, sources with the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.

Visiting United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt Campbell met with house-confined General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi at the Inya Lake Hotel here Wednesday under arrangement made by the Myanmar government.

A worker at a plastic factory in Hlaing township holds low-density polyethylene beads used to make plastic bags.

Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a rare appearance in front of reporters at a Yangon hotel today before holding talks with a visiting US envoy.

Bangkok, the Thai capital, was voted by foreign tourists as the most attractive city to visit among 10 of the 11 member cities of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 , with Thai food the most attractive factor, Thai News Agency online reported Wednesday.

We moved on for two days to another, justly, popular tourist site in the south of Shan State on Inle Lake.

A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.

Another magical sunrise kicked off an otherwise sticky and uneventful 12 hours up the Ayeryarwaddy to Mandalay.

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is unlikely to meet with Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Than Shwe on his two-day visit to the military-ruled country this week, government sources said Monday.

A 30-member Japanese economic delegation is due to arrive in Yangon Monday to meet and discuss with businessmen from the Union of Myanmar Chambers of Commerce and Industry to seek ways of promoting trade and investment in the country, the UMFCCI, Myanmar's biggest private business organization said on Sunday.

TWO senior US envoys travelling to military-ruled Myanmar this week will meet detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi but are unlikely to see the reclusive junta chief, an official said Sunday.