The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana released a press statement Sunday at Rangon International Airport, Burma.

THE Americans are returning to Burma. Jostling in hotel lifts with Chinese engineers who are here to build pipelines across Burma are new faces: US senators, business leaders and academics.

Tin Win and Mi Mi, a young Burmese couple, who form an unbreakable bond of love even though handicaps, poverty and adversity would pull apart lesser beings.

Rangoon- The Burmese exile-run Mizzima News Agency is preparing to open a branch office in Rangoon, reports said Sunday.

Map of the 36 Rohingya villages of the Kyauktaw township in the western Burmese Arakan state along the Kaladan River.

The government is set to extend the project on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for five more years to run the country's legal battle against India and Myanmar over its claim over the Bay of Bengal.

By Manik Mehta NEW YORK, Feb 4 -- Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries can influence fellow member Myanmar to follow the path of reform and democracy.

But the Hong Kong-based, Malaysian-born star refused to be drawn on the film's likely reception in Myanmar, otherwise known as Burma, where Suu Kyi's recent release from house arrest has ignited the democracy movement.

The UN human rights envoy to Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana arrives at Yangon International Airport on Jan.

Pirate copies of a new film about Aung San Suu Kyi's private life have flooded the streets of Yangon as vendors push the boundaries of new-found freedoms under a new government.Luc Besson's "The Lady", a two-hour biopic starring former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh, received mixed reviews, but that has not deterred viewers taking home blurred DVDs with ... (more)

Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed her second major campaign trip, this time to Mandalay, after officials said a football stadium would be closed "for government inspection." The trip will be rescheduled, National League for Democracy spokesman Ohn Kyaing told Mizzima .

Burma has plenty to entice visitors - and with the travel boycott at an end, they are sure to arrive in numbers, says Simon Usborne.

Thank you. It's terrific to be invited by an organization I admire greatly, the National Endowment for Democracy, to speak about an issue that I care about deeply: Burma and its future.

Many official bureaus de change at private banks in Rangoon have stopped purchasing US dollars due to competition from outside moneychangers, say financial sources in the former Burmese capital.

Burmese farmers plant rice seedlings at field in Zalun township of Irrawaddy division, about 129 kilometers southwest of Rangoon.

The return of Aung San Suu Kyi, the dynamic Burmese political figure and international icon, from long-term house arrest to full activity has energized her entire country.

On a state visit to Singapore with a delegation of ministers and businesspeople earlier this week, Burmese President Thein Sein made his most explicit commitment to democratic reform and an overhaul of the country's moribund economy and government infrastructure.

The Myanmar Rice Industry Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia's National Logistics Agency to sell 200,000 tons of rice to Indonesia this year.

More than 700 acres of farmland in Taunggyi in southern Shan State have been marked off with stakes and banners by authorities, leading to local farmers' fears that their land will be confiscated.

Last October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to the New York Economic Club.