Myanmar’s main opposition party says it has been told that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit in December to hold talks on the country’s...

A report says about 1,200 people have evacuated their homes after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern China near its border with Myanmar.

U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar’s capital Monday on a five-day mission to promote national reconciliation and political reform in the...

Myanmar’s main opposition party said Sunday that it hopes a visiting U.N. special envoy can help restart talks between detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu...

Five activists have been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for marching on the 20th anniversary of pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the Myanmar’s...

Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains has struck areas of Myanmar still recovering from a cyclone that killed more than 84,000 people, a state-run newspaper...

Thousands of sapphires, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, jade and other gems glitter in long glass display cases as merchants haggle with professional buyers _ most of them...

Several thousand people in Burma (also called Myanmar) were severely affected as they completely lost their homes and livelihood after Cyclone Nargis devastated the...

Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with her lawyer for the first time in five years, one of her colleagues said Sunday.

Myanmar authorities have released 43 demonstrators who held one of the country’s few protests marking the anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, an...

Twenty years after it violently suppressed a bid by more than a million peaceful protesters to restore democracy, Myanmar’s military junta was on high alert...

First lady Laura Bush, meeting with refugees who fled a brutal campaign by Myanmar’s military junta, urged China and other countries on Thursday to join the U.S....

A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river delta three months ago.

A famous Myanmar comedian and three other activists who helped deliver relief supplies to cyclone victims could be imprisoned for two years on charges of causing public...

President Bush signed legislation Tuesday to punish Myanmar’s brutal ruling regime by freezing assets of political and military leaders there and banning the...

The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on companies suspected of being owned or controlled by the military-run government of Myanmar.

As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government’s foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said...

Australia announced Wednesday an extra $29 million in aid for survivors of Myanmar’s May cyclone, but pressed its recalcitrant military junta to democratize...

Myanmar’s junta has indicated it will oppose any effort to give a Southeast Asian human rights body the power to monitor or investigate rights violations in the...