Recent media reports indicate at least eight ministers and the mayor of the old capital of Yangon will resign their posts as a presage to Myanmar's general elections scheduled for 2010. The list is a veritable who's who of the ruling State Peace and Development Council's (SPDC) top lieutenants and signals the regime's intention to keep its members prominent in the transition towards an elected civilian-led administration. ...

Burma's opposition party said Wednesday it saw little progress from a visit by a top UN envoy, as the junta accused democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of setting impossible conditions for talks.

UN diplomat Ibrahim Gambari left military-run Burma Tuesday after a four-day visit aimed at nudging the regime toward dialogue with the democratic ...

A leader of military regime gave the U.N.'s visiting envoy a cold reception Tuesday, telling him the world body should lift economic sanctions and visa bans if it wants to see political stability, state television reported.

Special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met with Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein before ending his four-day visit with no public ...

Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet with the minister assigned to organise the junta's contacts with her, the government announced in state media on Tuesday.

In a television broadcast hours after United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the military-ruled nation, the regime accused the democracy icon and ...

Suu Kyi tells UN envoy she's frustrated

Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed frustration to a U.N. envoy Monday over the world body's failure to persuade the country's hard-line military leaders to give up their monopoly on power, her party said.

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Indonesia said Friday it will repatriate 174 "economic migrants" who fled Burma claiming persecution, as new accounts emerged of their harrowing sea journey and alleged abuse by the Thai navy.

The ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who rights groups say fled Myanmar only to be beaten and abandoned at sea by the Thai military, would be repatriated to ...