Thein Sein

State television in Myanmar says President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 93 prisoners one day after the European Union lifted sanctions against the Southeast Asian nation.

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON | Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:46am EDT YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's president announced an amnesty on Tuesday for about 100 prisoners, a senior official said, 56 of whom were confirmed ...

A leading international rights group is accusing authorities in Myanmar, including senior Buddhist monks, of organizing a "campaign of ethnic cleansing" against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

EU sanctions against Burma will be permanently lifted by European Union foreign ministers on Monday despite their failure to secure support for the changes from the country's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's president said Sunday his country needs to learn from the violence and instability that has wracked the Southeast Asian nation over the last two years if it is to overcome the challenge of democratization.

A court in Burma has sentenced three Muslims to 14 years in jail for their role in communal violence that has left more than 40 dead.

By Jared Ferrie YANGON | Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:13am EDT YANGON (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the ...

BOAO, China | Sun Apr 7, 2013 2:14am EDT BOAO, China (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping pledged on Sunday that change and peaceful development will power his country's economic rise and sustain ...

Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were lauded by visiting Western leaders, and the nation's president was hailed as a hero. But spasms of spreading, communal violence show the reform path is bumpier that expected and have taken the sheen off a foreign policy success of the Obama administration's first term.