YANGON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese financial *service* provider UnionPay pledged to help Myanmar in developing payment infrastructure to transform into a ...
YANGON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has held its 9th Traditional Medicine Research Congress in Mandalay city in the central part to boost the use of such ...
A survey by the Wildlife Conservation Society of Myanmar (WCS Myanmar) has counted 72 Irrawaddy dolphins inhabiting the Ayeyarwady River between ...
Myanmar is the newest chapter location for the American Society of Travel Advisors, a move that reflects growing interest in an intriguing, once Myanmar is the ...
Myanmar needs to address the spread of fake news on social media by empowering local journalists, providing freer access to information, and pushing for ...
Mr. Tin adapted a Western instrument to express the richness of Burmese music, including folk tunes, royal court music and movie songs.
AN OLD, SLENDER man in camouflage fatigues and a black beret raised himself stiffly from a plastic chair. His name, rank and long record of military *service* ...
The next seven days in Yangon sees plenty of photography-related events lined up as part of the Yangon Photo Festival and lots of art, music, environment and ...
Taipei, Feb.20 (CNA) The hand luggage of travelers arriving from Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar is being inspected at seaports and airports across Taiwan ...
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, 28 January 2019 -. "Thank you for the opportunity to speak at this important event, and to learn more about Myanmar's efforts to put ...
Members of the Journalists Association of Bhutan (JAB) has re-elected Rinzin Wangchuk, Editor of the country's leading media Kuensel, and a board member of ...
The ongoing human rights crisis in Myanmar has prompted the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) to launch a four-point guide aimed at helping brands and retailers ...
By Ashley South 4 February 2019. The “interim” period in the peace process is likely to be long-lasting — until there is a realignment in state-society relations ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Myanmar should take the responsibility and allow the Rohingya refugees to return as they are their ...
Myanmar's LGBT community is confronting out-dated laws that criminalise their personal lives and hostile attitudes fed by popular culture.
Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) issued a statement on February 20 stressing the need to write a new charter by abolishing the current 2008 ...
If a peace process is to lead to a peace supported by the entire country, everyone needs to be involved in making it. But often groups, such as people living with ...
After several long and harsh days of protest by Karenni youth against the installation of a statue of General Aung San, the demonstrators reached an agreement ...
Bangladeshi expatriate in Dubai paid an opposition party for nomination: Hasina.
KBZ Deputy CEO Daw Nang Lang Kham said the bank was making 2019 The Year of Metta, or loving-kindness, to better serve its customers and bring banking ...
Abu Dhabi: The Bangladesh Prime Minster Shaikh Hasina alleged that a Bangladeshi expatriate in Dubai had paid money to an opposition party to be a ...
Conservationists have recovered the body of an endangered Ayeyarwady dolphin off Patheingyi township in Mandalay Region, a conservationist said.
By Nan Lwin 20 February 2019. YANGON—The general secretary of the rebel-controlled Mongla Special Administrative Region on the Chinese border has ...
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that factory workers will have access to legal representation free of charge once his volunteer group of his ...
Many college students spend their winter break vacationing or relaxing at home, but this winter, some Suffolk students decided to go abroad and build a house ...
A new collaboration between the University of Indianapolis Department of International Relations and the Burmese American Community Institute (BACI) seeks ...
Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - The cabinet approved an agreement between the governments of Thailand and Myanmar to suppress human trafficking and eliminate the ...
Two decades ago, civil society in Myanmar was declared dead. Now, in the wake of reforms starting in 2010, a diverse cross section of civil society ...
On the 15th anniversary of Facebook's launch, Mark Zuckerberg says his company will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than the total amount of ...
The Embassies of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway together hosted the yearly celebration of Nordic Day in Myanmar on Friday, 15 February 2019.
Imphal, February 20 2019: The relentless operations by Assam Rifles, to rid the Manipuri youth of the devastating effects of drugs on not only the individual drug ...
In Myanmar, spousal abuse is legal and stigma stop most women from reporting sexual violence. A bill championed by feminists but long stalled in Parliament ...
The social network exploded in Myanmar, allowing fake news and violence to consume a country emerging from military rule.
All the Asean news you need to know for February 21, 2019. Asean news, Asean Economic Community, Asean English news, Asean business news, Asean ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 ― Datuk A. Kadir Jasin has chided the local media today for emphasising on the “emotional” reactions towards the International ...
Recent reporting on how the Myanmar military harnessed Facebook to disseminate anti-Rohingya propaganda complicates the ongoing debate about ...
The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were ...
Myanmar youth activist and television host Thinzar Shun Lei Yi would once have called herself one of Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest fans. Now, she is one of her ...
Social media posts about the jailed Reuters journalists shows that many users believe they betrayed the country because they reported unpalatable facts.
YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court jailed three activists on Friday for defaming the military during anti-war protests, amid growing concern about a ...
Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl said in Dhaka on Wednesday that the foreign countries and international organizations which have investments in ...
Last fall, as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar in the wake of brutal state persecution, soldiers selected 10 men at random from a camp of ...
Seventy-six Myanmar civil society groups called on Tuesday for the release of two jailed Reuters reporters, denouncing their conviction as unfair and an assault ...
The world has ignored the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya for decades. Even the label 'genocide' seems unlikely to change the status quo | Melanie O'Brien.
Responding to Mark Zuckerberg's comments in a Vox interview, civil society advocates said Facebook had no consistent methods for dealing with hate speech ...
News item | 13-09-2018 | 11:26. The Ministry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has launched a second Call for Proposals for the Human Rights Fund.
Over the past year, Facebook has faced a reckoning over the way its plan to connect the next billion users to the internet has sown division, including spreading ...
Government and civil society organisations have endorsed a national nutrition action plan aimed at reducing malnutrition among mothers, children and ...
Social development experts have criticised the National League for Democracy-led government for not being fully engaged with civil society organisations ...
Last week, after frustrated activists from Myanmar sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, they got something unexpected: a ...
Asia Society Policy Institute issues a new paper highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing Myanmar, and how the West should engage the country.
More than 2000 Rohingya Muslim refugees are set for repatriation from neighboring Bangladesh, many of them unwillingly. The United Nations calls it a “clear ...
By Bo Kyi 9 October 2018. Management is becoming a popular conversation point in Myanmar these days, and rightly so. After all, in order to be successful, ...
Senator Inhofe, Acting Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, Chairman. Senate Armed Services Committee House Armed Services Committee. Senator Jack Reed ...
Signing the 1951 Refugee Convention will be hugely symbolic in that it registers the government's interest and seriousness in taking care of refugees in ...
Emerald green Webi is nowhere on the tourist map, but it is home to the Karens, who came here from Burma across the stormy Andaman Sea more than 90 ...
U.N. investigators say Facebook has provided a platform for hate speech that may have facilitated genocide in Myanmar. Civil society groups in Myanmar are ...
Myanmar civil society groups welcomed a commitment by Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to tackle hate speech within 24 hours as the social media ...
Myanmar authorities have systematically denied life-saving assistance to civilians fleeing conflict in Kachin and Shan states.
During a bilateral meeting with Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, the vice president delivered a strong rebuke of her country's persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
There's a growing sense among citizens that de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi does not support the country's various religious and ethnic groups that are being ...
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) has started preparations for the 2020 general election, as it intensifies recruitment of new members.
Myanmar President Win Myint on Monday said that the country's human rights situation has improved, but critics disagreed, pointing to violence targeting ...
The Myanmar film industry tends to portray traditional gender roles and fails to make changes in gender discrimination and stereotype in recent films, according ...
YANGON—As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) finishes a second year in office, a Scorecard released by a civil society coalition led ...
The social network ploughs its way through the world and deals with the consequences later. In Myanmar, that strategy has had deadly consequences.
A United Nations panel has recommended that top Myanmar military officials “be investigated and prosecuted” for genocide and human rights atrocities against ...
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Max Fisher, a reporter based in London who co-writes The ...
Reuters found more than 1000 examples of *content* attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation to combat the vitriol has failed ...
Humanitarian and civil society agencies working in Rakhine State in Myanmar and in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are deeply concerned that the ...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor once said, “Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.” Our generation is, arguably, the most ...
At least five people have been killed and over 95000 people have been forced to flee their homes by widespread flooding in seven states and regions during the ...
By YE MON | FRONTIER. BAGAN — Commercial development in the Bagan monument zone continued this week during an official visit by an expert from the ...
Late last year, when news broke that Myanmar's military had been systematically killing members of the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, much of the world ...
The next "key milestone" that Asean wants to see in the ongoing Rohingya crisis is the repatriation of refugees to Myanmar, said Foreign Minister Vivian ...
After more than two years of uncertainty, the government has committed to establishing a National Land Law in line with the principles of the widely lauded ...
Truepic's technology is already used by the U.S. State Department and others. The startup now wants to get social media companies on board.
AustCham Myanmar has announced the thought-leaders that will shape the conversations and challenge conventions at the 2018 Women in Business and ...
As governments across the world exploit social platforms to tear societies apart, undermine democracy, spread misinformation, encourage chaos, dehumanize ...
Việt Nam will meet Myanmar in their third match of Group A in the AFF Suzuki Cup at Thuwanna YTC Stadium in Yangon today.
Millions of dollars have been channeled into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects since the Myanmar-China oil and natural gas pipelines commenced ...
Through a spokesperson, the Twitter and Square CEO said he was unaware multiple government agencies were reportedly involved in organizing the flight.
Analysis Facebook has banned 20 organizations and individuals in Myanmar, including the country's commander-in-chief, following a United Nations report ...
NEW YORK - Myanmar should start repatriating the Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, and it must ensure that they return to a society where there is security, ...
The four storey yellow painted building with big masonry work of books in black and white pages for its motif loomed high at the corner of Merchant Road and ...
The Government of Myanmar's approach to land policy risks increasing land conflicts and exacerbating current challenges in formal peace negotiations.
Facebook has been making headlines this year with what seems like scandal after scandal, from the Cambridge Analytica data breach to Facebook CEO Mark ...
Myanmar Police Chief Lieutenant General Aung Win Oo and others prepare to board a helicopter in Sittwe, capital of western Myanmar's Rakhine state, to fly to ...
Women play important roles in Myanmar, but often in the background. Two new books put the spotlight on some unassuming but far from ordinary women.
The wave of sanctions imposed by the international community because of the treatment of Rohingya people are unlikely to encourage the Myanmar authorities ...
SIR - I find your article last Friday covering the EF English Proficiency Index very disturbing because of the views promoting privatisation without seeking ...
The Southeast Asian nation adopted the internet faster than any other country. Ever. Here's what that feels like and what it has unleashed.
The first known fossil remains of a baby snake have turned up in a hunk of amber found in Myanmar. The critter, a new species named Xiaophis myanmarensis, ...
A quarrel at a tea shop in Yangon city triggered off a nationwide popular pro-democracy movement that spread throughout the country that came to be known as ...
The tribalism plaguing Myanmar for the last 60 years has led to the persecution of many more of the country's minority peoples.
With less than two months before the newly amended Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management (VFV) Law goes into force, millions in ethnic rural areas ...
Catholic clergy and laypeople have been expelled from Myanmar's northern Shan state by a China-backed ethnic minority army. Two Salesian priests, three ...
It is important to imbibe Singaporeans, especially the youth, with political education in order to have a functioning democratic society, said Kirsten Han, ...
English News and Press Release on World and 9 other countries about Education, Children, IDPs and more; published on 19 Feb 2019 by Office of the UN ...
Yangon-based Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) will take part in an Asian “doing good” index, which examines fiscal, cultural and social ...