Arakan Law Lead Story Military News
NLD official charged under telecoms law
Senior NLD official Myo Yan Naung Thein faces charges after posting remarks critical of the army’s defense of Burma’s borders on Facebook.
Arakan Law Lead Story Military News
Senior NLD official Myo Yan Naung Thein faces charges after posting remarks critical of the army’s defense of Burma’s borders on Facebook.
Kachin Lead Story Military News
A serviceman from the Burmese armed forces has shot and killed an 18-year-old university student in Myitkyina.
Accidents Lead Story Military News
All three crew members aboard a Burmese Air Force helicopter were killed when it crashed in the Pegu Division town of Daik-U on Tuesday.
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Amid rapid economic and social reforms that began in 2011, the cost of years of conflict on the lives of those who did the fighting is slowly being revealed.
In her first Burmese New Year’s speech as head of the new NLD-led government, Aung San Suu Kyi called for cooperation from the country’s people.
Speaking at a gathering to mark Thingyan, President Htin Kyaw also called for an end to politically-motivated charges against dissidents.
Military members of Burma’s lower house of parliament failed on Tuesday to block a bill that would give National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi a powerful[…]
A Stockholm-based think tank said military spending came to 2.3 percent of global GDP — a tenth of which would be enough to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story News
Burma’s cities are attracting an increasing number of rural poor, but efforts to provide them with affordable housing are falling short.
Foreign Affairs Interview Lead Story Military News
DVB discusses China’s live fire exercise near the Chinese-Burmese border with Dr Hla Kyaw Zaw, who says there is nothing sinister about the drills.