At least 46 people have died in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western Myanmar near the border with Bangladesh, state media reported today.
Military-ruled Myanmar has begun a nuclear weapons programme with the help of North Korea, a new investigation revealed today, citing an army major defector and years of "top secret material".
A US senator is to meet detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues as well as members of Myanmar's junta during a visit to the military-ruled country starting today.
Myanmar's Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the latest house arrest extension of detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years in some form of detention.
A court in Insein Prison sentenced two officials to death and a businessman to 15 years in jail for revealing state secrets, officials said on Friday.
Army-ruled Myanmar said it had arrested 11 people who had planned to derail this year's elections by plotting to bomb an industrial zone and attack military convoys.
Myanmar's military junta on Saturday night freed Tin Oo, the 84-year-old deputy leader of the country's main opposition party, after keeping him under house detention for seven years.
A UN envoy met ministers from Myanmar's military junta today to press for a meeting with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and discuss human rights ahead of elections this year.
Myanmar troops have gang-raped, murdered and even crucified Karen women, or those in their charge, who took on the roles of village chiefs in hopes they would be less likely abused than traditional male leaders, a Karen group said.
Myanmar's Supreme Court will rule on Friday on detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against an 18-month extension to her house arrest, a court notice said.
Myanmar's Supreme Court on Friday turned down an appeal by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her sentence of 18 months of house detention, which would keep her confined during a general election planned this year, her defence lawyers said.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces expulsion from her own party and is barred from standing in polls this year under the military junta’s new election laws, a spokesman said.
Myanmar's ruling junta has used new election laws to officially annul the result of polls in 1990 that were won by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, state media said on Thursday.
Myanmar’s military government on Thursday officially annulled the results of the country’s 1990 general election, a poll it chose to ignore at the time when the main opposition party won by a landslide.
Military-ruled Myanmar was due to release a US rights activist, who was jailed for three years in February for fraud and forgery, an official told AFP.