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Pet Cafe Trend Cat-Ching On In Yangon
It may be raining cats and dogs in Myanmar, but in Yangon two coffee shops are offering animal-lovers a chance to...
Myanmar Still Using ‘same Tactics’ of Oppression As Junta
Myanmar is still using the same "tactics" to silence its people as the former junta, the UN's rights envoy said Friday,...
Bad Weather Caused Deadly Plane Crash
Bad weather caused a Myanmar military plane to crash last month with 122 people on board, state media reported on...
US Pressures Myanmar To Accept UN Rights Probe
US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday ramped up pressure on the Myanmar government to accept a UN fact-finding mission...
Designers Put Ethical Twist On Local Fashion
With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using home-grown...
Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to end...
Myanmar’s Muslims Mark Ramadan Out In the Cold
Huddled under umbrellas to escape a thundering monsoon downpour, dozens of Muslims stood in line at a Yangon mosque for...
Half the Number of Bodies From Myanmar Plane Crash Recovered
Search crews in Myanmar have now recovered the bodies of nearly half of those who died in last week's military plane...
Bodies Retrieved As Myanmar Ships Scour Site of Plane Crash
Myanmar navy ships battled high winds on Saturday as they scoured the storm-whipped Andaman sea for wreckage from a...
Storms Hinder Desperate Search For Myanmar Plane Wreck
Heavy rains and churning seas hampered search efforts for victims of a military plane crash off Myanmar's southern...
Hunt For Myanmar Plane Wreck Survivors Enters Third Day
Search and rescue efforts for a plane that crashed off Myanmar's southern coast entered a third day on Friday, as hopes...
Rescuers Pull Bodies From Plane Wreck In Myanmar Sea
Myanmar search and rescue teams were pulling dead bodies from the sea off the country's southern coast Thursday after a...
Debris and Bodies Found After Search
The Burmese army says debris and bodies have been found after a military plane went missing with 122 people on board....
Myanmar Child Servants Abused As Legal Protections Prove Elusive
Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat Noe crying as she lies in a Yangon hospital,...
Myanmar Scours Sea For 122 Missing After Plane Disappears
Myanmar's military was on Thursday scouring the waves for more than 120 people missing after their plane vanished...
Military Plane Carrying 116 People Vanishes Over Burma
A Burmese military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday after taking off from an airport in the capital...
‘Myanmar Military Plane Carrying 116 Missing’
A Myanmar military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon,...
Myanmar’s Edible Bird Nest Industry Comes Home To Roost
The cries of amorous swiftlets echo around the dark room, an unlikely gold mine for traders in southern Myanmar who are...
Yangon Authorities Sue Muslims For Praying In the Street
Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school...