Burma's president appoints Duchira Dan investigation commission, but only to address the disappearance of police sergeant and the fire which razed 20 Rohingya homes.

This week: foreign banks given open-door treatment; Burmese trade data;SMEs; electricity; nickel mining; dam construction; economic corridor from China to India; Burma's 'Oscars' up for tender; and a well-known beer company taps into the Burmese market.

A local government minister has blasted Burma’s “weak” response to the recent Muslim-Buddhist clashes in Arakan’s Sandoway township, which claimed seven lives.

A fresh round of peace talks kicked off in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina on Tuesday between the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and a Burmese government delegation.

A group of young men were arrested on Sunday after an alcohol-fuelled bender led to vandalism in a Mandalay township, as police forces step up their efforts to restrain communal unrest

More than a dozen people protested in front of the UNHCR's offices in Rangoon last Friday to express their support of President Thein Sein’s plan to resettle the Rohingya minority in third countries