A long way to travel before Yangon's transport infrastructure gets a full upgrade. Photo: Hein Htet/Mizzima
03 March 2015
Trains chug around Yangon's circular railway at a stately pace barely faster than a brisk...
Six airports in Myanmar have had an upgrade. Bagan-Nyaung U Airport. Photo: Mizzima
03 March 2015
Myanmar has upgraded six major airports in terms of safety and security by installing new...
Paunglaung dam in 2013. Photo: Mizzima
28 February 2015
The Myanmar government plans to focus efforts on building 20 hydropower plants within the...
28 February 2015
The Yangon Women’s Festival, set to run from March 2 to 8 in Myanmar’s commercial capital...
Nai Hong Sar addressing the media. Photo: Hein Htet.
26 February 2015
Myanmar’s main coalition of armed ethnic groups, the United Nationalities Federal Council...
The OGP conference in full swing. Photo: provided.
26 February 2015
Civil society groups say the government is failing to include them in a process aimed at...
Union members striking. Photo: Hong Sar.
26 February 2015
Ma Thazin Soe has worked in a garment factory in Yangon's northern Mayangone Township for...
Tourists visit the Mya Thein Tan pagoda in Sagaing, some 10 kilometres northwest of Mandalay, Myanmar, February 6, 2015. Photo: Pyae Sone Aung/EPA
24 February 2015
Myanmar needs to take care in how it develops its tourism to avoid the potential for...
20 February 2015
The four proposed bills to “Protect Nation, Race, and Religion,” have been accused of...
20 February 2015
Breath is not bated at the U Hla Tun Cancer Hospice in a Yangon’s rural East Dagon...
Workers load bags of rubber sheets and cotton onto a Chinese ship in the Thai port of Chiang Saen on the Mekong river, March 29, 2008, in the Golden Triangle region of northern Thailand, where the Mekong river meets at the borders of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA
20 February 2015
The leaders of Japan and five Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River plan to...
20 February 2015
Thai conservationist and human rights activist Kraisak Choonhavan has long campaigned...

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