A Myanmar activist participates in a rally demanding the immediate release of his pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. -AP YANGON: UN chief Ban Ki-Moon announced that he would visit Myanmar and ...

The arrest by Japanese police this week of three men over an alleged attempt to send high-tech arms-making equipment to Burma at the behest of North Korean agents has deepened suspicions that Pyongyang is helping to arm ...

The event was organized by the Burma Center Prague and local human rights NGO People in Need (Clověk v tísni). "The main goal of the event is to support the public and the opposition in Burma in their fight for democracy and freedom, to let the people ...

Geneva - The 50000th refugee from Myanmar to leave the camps along the country's border with Thailand for resettlement abroad will arrive in the US on Tuesday, the United Nations Refugee Agency said.

Burma has denied any link with a North Korean ship in the South China Sea. US officials have said they believe the Kang Nam 1 could be heading to Burma, carrying weapons in defiance of a United Nations embargo. Burma and North Korea ...

Chris Beard, a palaeontologist with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, believes that he and his team have found a far better candidate in the shape of a primate fossil found in Burma which he said is much more likely ...

Burma's burning ambition to acquire modern missile technology and to upgrade its conventional weapons is no longer a secret and, if left unchecked, could pose a destabilising threat to regional stability.