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Why Burma's leader does not expect criticism during India visit

On the Thailand-Burma border, Dr. Cynthia Maung's Mae Tao Clinic has for 21 years managed to care for over 250,000 semi-permanent refugees while also providing quiet cross-border assistance to those who need it.

BANGALORE - Myanmar's Senior General Than Shwe ended a five-day visit to India on Thursday having sealed several pacts that will boost security and economic cooperation between the two countries.

General Than Shwe, leader of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1988, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a five-day state visit to discuss energy and insurgents

Nation >>National Minority Donor Day to be observed Sunday, August 1st On Sunday, August 1st, National Minority Donor Awareness Day will be observed throughout the U.S. This annual day of observance has been established in order to increase awareness of organ donation among Asian, Alaskan...

Ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Hanoi ahead of the region’s main security dialogue, which would also gathers major powers including China, the United States and the European Union.

YANGON: North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Myanmar on Thursday for talks with the military government, an official said, amid Western concerns about possible nuclear cooperation between the two autocratic nations.