TOKYO -President Barack Obama said Saturday his new policy of direct communication with Myanmar's ruling generals was built on the failure of U.S. sanctions to change

UNITED NATIONS -Exiled opposition leaders from Myanmar came together at the U.N. on Friday to present a plan for a democratic future in their homeland and ask the U.N

SINGAPORE -U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Washington will not impose new conditions on Myanmar's junta in exchange for better relations

BANGKOK (Sept. 7) - The rare Arakan forest turtle, once though to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, boosting chances of saving the reptile

YANGON, Myanmar (May 18) - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial Monday, as hundreds of riot police ringed the country's most notorious prison

in on the ASEAN 10 meeting that will include the leader of a brutal regime in Myanmar. The administration has recently unveiled a new policy of directly engaging the leadership of Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS -Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the Obama administration has decided to engage in direct high-level talks with Myanmar's junta

YANGON, Myanmar -A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of northwestern Myanmar early Tuesday causing no casualties but damaging Buddhist temples believed to date

YANGON, Myanmar (Aug. 11) - A Myanmar court convicted Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay

BANGKOK -Fighting reportedly broke out Thursday between an ethnic militia and government security forces in northeastern Myanmar, breaching a two-decade cease-fire. Several

YANGON, Myanmar (May 14) ? Myanmar's Nobel Prize-winning pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced new charges Thursday, less than two weeks before her house arrest was due

BRUSSELS -The European Union says it is expanding its sanctions against Myanmar after the country sentenced pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional 18 months