Myanmar rebels vow to 'eradicate' drugs

By News Flash on May 19, 2012

KENGTUNG, Myanmar (AFP) – Myanmar’s government and ethnic rebels engaged in peace talks signed a deal Saturday to wipe out drug production in Shan state, a minister involved in negotiations told AFP. The Restoration Council of Shan State and its military wing the Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) had proposed a raft of measures to “eradicate” [...]

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Obama: world will do all it can to prod Myanmar reform

By News Flash on May 19, 2012

President Barack Obama, fresh from easing US sanctions on Myanmar, said at the G8 summit Saturday that world powers would do all they could to promote the country’s political reforms. Obama lifted some investment restrictions on the nominally civilian-ruled nation this week, hoping to reward President Thein Sein for taking steps toward political change, and [...]

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Myanmar president feeling ill, resting at home

By News Flash on May 19, 2012

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s President Thein Sein was resting at his home in Yangon on Friday after military doctors paid a house call but an adviser said his condition was “nothing to worry about.” It was not immediately clear what was ailing the 67-year-old leader, but he could be suffering from exhaustion due to [...]

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Geography of Myanmar

By blogtopia on March 23, 2010

Myanmar, which has a total area of 678,500 square kilometres (262,000 sq mi), is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, and the 40th-largest in the world. It is bordered to the northwest by Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh of India to the northwest. It shares its longest borders [...]

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History of Myanmar

By blogtopia on March 23, 2010

After the First Burmese War, the Ava kingdom ceded the provinces of Manipur, Tenassarim, and Arakan to the British. Rangoon and southern Burma were incorporated into British India in 1853. All of Burma (Myanmar) came directly or indirectly under British India in 1886 after the Third Burmese War and the fall of Mandalay. Burma was [...]

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Early History of Myanmar

By blogtopia on March 23, 2010

Certain evidence has been found which suggest that humans lived in the region that is now Myanmar as early as 11,000 years ago, but current published archeological evidence accepted by most scholars dates the first settlements at about 2500 BC with cattle rearing and the production of bronze. Evidence of earlier humans is reported to [...]

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