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Myanmar's parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant as president
Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state who does not hail from a military background since the 1960s.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi nominated to join cabinet-parliament speaker
YANGON- Myanmar's president-elect has nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the cabinet formed by her National League for Democracy (NLD), the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, after the party swept to a historic election victory in November.
Myanmar launches first shares on fledgling bourse
Myanmar launched its first stock exchange with just one listed company Friday, with hopes the move could aid the country's economic rise as it emerges from decades of isolationist military rule.
March 25, 2016 | 02:28 am PT
Myanmar picks Vietnam's Viettel for fourth telecom license
Myanmar is granting its fourth telecom licence to a consortium led by the Vietnamese mobile network operator, as it looks to further open its young but increasingly competitive telecoms market.
March 28, 2016 | 08:19 pm PT
Tears flow as Myanmar swears in first president with no army ties in more than 50 years
NAYPYITAW/YANGON - Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.
March 30, 2016 | 01:20 am PT
Suu Kyi's party to propose giving her special 'advisor' role
Aung San Suu Kyi's party will Thursday submit a proposal to create a new "state advisor" role for her, MPs said, giving her power to liaise between the president and parliament.
March 31, 2016 | 03:08 am PT
Myanmar's ruling party, military clash over Suu Kyi role
NAYPYITAW/YANGON - Myanmar's upper house of parliament approved a bill on Friday that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a powerful government role, despite opposition from the military on the second day of her party's new administration.
April 1, 2016 | 02:42 am PT
Vietnam congratulates Myanmar’s new foreign minister
Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh sent a congratulatory message to his new Myanmar counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi over her assignment on April 4.
April 4, 2016 | 04:54 pm PT
China says business spats with Myanmar can be resolved
China is confident it can resolve business disagreements with Myanmar through friendly talks, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after meeting his counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi, amid pressure from China to resume a stalled $3.6 billion dam project.
April 5, 2016 | 07:26 pm PT
Cambodian tigers declared 'extinct' as reintroduction plan unveiled
Tigers are "functionally extinct" in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom's forests.
April 6, 2016 | 01:52 am PT
Myanmar struck by 7.0 magnitude earthquake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck northwestern Myanmar on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, sending strong tremors through Myanmar, eastern India, Bangladesh and parts of Nepal.
April 13, 2016 | 06:42 am PT
Viettel JV to invest $1.5 billion in Myanmar
A consortium between Vietnam’s state-owned Viettel and two Myanmar partners will pour about $1.5 billion to build 3G and 4G telecommunication networks in Myanmar.
April 15, 2016 | 07:27 pm PT
Myanmar president frees 83 political prisoners
Myanmar's new president has pardoned 83 prisoners held for political crimes, officials said Sunday, just weeks after the first government in half a century not connected to the military took office.
April 17, 2016 | 02:28 am PT
Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to include ethnic groups in "democratic federal union"
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose post as Myanmar state counsellor makes her de facto head of state, vowed on Monday to build a democratic federal union including ethnic minorities, but did not mention any group by name.
April 18, 2016 | 12:56 am PT
As economy booms, children toil in Myanmar
When a boat stacked with gravel moors at a jetty in Yangon, 14-year-old Aung Htet Myat fills a basket he then carries on his back to trucks that whisk the load to construction sites springing up across Myanmar's booming biggest city.
April 18, 2016 | 05:13 pm PT
As economy booms, children toil in Myanmar
One in five children in Myanmar aged 10-17 go to work instead of school, according to figures from a census report on employment published last month, and the opening up of the economy since 2011 has triggered a spike on demand for labour.
April 18, 2016 | 06:24 pm PT
Myanmar's "long-necked" women hope to turn tourism into homecoming
Wearing a stack of bronze neck coils -- a sign of beauty for her Kayan tribe -- Mu Par dreams of a time when all "long-necked" women can return to Myanmar from Thailand where they are a tourist attraction.
April 19, 2016 | 08:17 pm PT
Myanmar bans lucrative logging in bid to preserve forests
Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday.
April 28, 2016 | 05:28 pm PT
Hundreds protest restart of China-backed copper mine in Myanmar
Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar protested on Friday against the resumption of operations at a Chinese-backed copper mine, in one of the first tests for the new government's ability to deal with public anger.
May 6, 2016 | 04:55 pm PT
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