CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Burma negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Nay Satkyar Naing, 19, is like many of the Burmese youth in the Thai border town of Mae Sot who came for...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Observing that it is still too early to say how far the current phase of reforms in Burma will go, US Secretary...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – British Prime Minister David Cameron and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a joint call Friday for the suspension of...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar’s by-election Sunday is for a small portion of parliament seats, but has taken on immense symbolic importance because it will likely...
Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travelers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of...
CHIANGRI TIMES – Myanmar has promised to “seriously consider” allowing Southeast Asian observers for by-elections marking the opposition’s return to mainstream politics, the ASEAN regional...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Aung Naing Oo fled Myanmar more than two decades ago, trekking through dense tropical jungles to escape the country’s military regime. On...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – After an emotional first meeting with Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that more...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates on Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar’s (Burma) government signed a cease-fire agreement Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step toward ending one of the world’s...
Burma is marking the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain Wednesday, amid criticism that the government’s recent clemency program is not doing enough for...
Thailand’s government has returned the Thai passport of the fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and is preparing to welcome him from exile, stoking renewed...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday for a landmark three-day visit to the long-isolated nation focused on encouraging further political...
Myanmar’s nominal civilian government has suspended a controversial $3.6 billion hydroelectric power project which has faced objections from various social strata nationwide, according to the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Myanmar last November, she has traveled the country, drawing large crowds in...
CHIANG RAI TIMES – The most notable development of recent weeks was the August 19 meeting between opposition leader and Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu...
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of more than a dozen powerful women senators has urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call on the...
On Tuesday morning, an explosion aboard an oil tanker killed one dock worker and injured 4 others at a dockyard just south of Bangkok on the...
As violence escalates in Myanmar, about a dozen armed ethnic groups have condemned the junta as illegitimate and vowed to stand with the anti-coup protesters. In...