News: Burma

We have started to collect the most important news related to Burma in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Burma – overview

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• '100 bird flu outbreaks' in Burma – Anger greets Suu Kyi conviction
• Anti-Muslim monk stokes Burmese religious ... – Australia eases Burma sanctions
• Australia to increase Burma aid – Burma 'deeply regrets' UN rebuke
• Burma 'detains three activists' – Burma aid effort 'requires $1bn'
• Burma aid situation 'improving' – Burma completes charter outline
• Burma condemned over jail sentences – Burma exiled war hero dies at 93
• Burma exiles watch and wait – Burma in English football TV deal
• Burma in Kachin rebels peace deal – Burma monk 'faces legal action'
• Burma monks issue defiant message – Burma reduces prisoner sentences
• Burma refugees detained in Indonesia – Burma student leader returns home
• Burma targets copper mine protest – Burma warned over cyclone delays
• Burma warns against poll boycott – Burma's Suu Kyi meets colleagues
• Burma's Suu Kyi on Europe visit – Burmese migrants found dead
• Burmese military imposes curfew – Caught on camera
• Cautious response to Burma vow – Deadly clash in central Burma town
• Deadly clashes in Burmese north – Fairey makes Suu Kyi film poster
• Fears Burma storm toll could soar – Harsh sentences for Burma rebels
• Healing the enemy – Japan agrees Burma debt write-off
• Japan announces fresh aid to Burma – McCain aides quit over Burma ties
• Meet Burma's DIY oil drillers – New Burmese law allows protests
• New protests on Rangoon streets – Political shift
• Poll position – Secret meeting
• Security Council rebukes Burma – Suu Kyi 'wins landmark election'
• Suu Kyi actress barred from Burma – Suu Kyi makes parliamentary debut
• Suu Kyi makes rare political trip – Suu Kyi verdict 'set for Friday'
• Suu Kyi visitor tells of 'sorrow' – The political prisoners who Burma will not...
• The resigned victims of Burma's junta – UN chief to send envoy to Burma
• UN condemns 'unfair' Burma polls – UN raises Burma cyclone estimate
• UN raps Burma's 'slow progress' – US blacklists Burmese army officer
• US Burma trip begins long process – US urges end to violence in Burma
• US waives law for Chin refugees – VIDEO: Burma refugees fleeing to China
• VIDEO: Burma sectarian clashes kill five – VIDEO: India PM's historic visit to Burma
• VIDEO: Inside a Burmese rebel village – VIDEO: Suu Kyi: Burma's poll 'not fair'
• VIDEO: Thailand's drugs smuggling battle – Winners and losers of Burma's opening up
• Worker killed in Burma bus blast – Zoo moved to Burma's capital

Burma: news

'100 bird flu outbreaks' in Burma

Monday, April 10th 2006, 9:21

A UN official says bird flu has spread rapidly in Burma, with more than 100 outbreaks among the country's poultry.
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'Abuses' in Burma's Kachin state

Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 7:17
related countries: United States

Burma is accused of "serious abuses" against the ethnic Kachin people in a report by the US campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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'Buried Spitfires' search called off

Saturday, February 16th 2013, 7:26

Archaeologists have called off a hunt for World War II Spitfire fighter aircraft, believed to have been buried in Burma, after a dig drew a blank.
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'Burma attacks' Naga rebels bases

Friday, December 9th 2005, 7:32
related countries: India
related places: Naga

A faction of Naga separatist rebels in north-east India say five of their bases in Burma are under attack.
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'Do not give up hope' - Suu Kyi

Sunday, November 14th 2010, 11:39
related places: Rangoon

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi urges supporters not to "give up hope", a day after her release from house arrest.
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'Dracula' fish shows baby teeth

Wednesday, March 11th 2009, 2:33

A miniature Burmese fish has developed extraordinary fangs made of bone, scientists report.
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'Hopeful' Clinton in Burma visit

Wednesday, November 30th 2011, 10:35

Hillary Clinton expresses cautious hope for reform in Burma, as she begins a landmark visit to the diplomatically isolated South East Asian nation.
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'Insulting' Thai palace soap opera angers Myanmar

Monday, March 13th 2017, 4:05
related countries: Thailand

The drama appears to depict Burmese palace intrigue although producers say it is fictional.
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'Lifeline service'

Thursday, September 2nd 2010, 11:51

BBC Burmese marks 70 years of broadcasting
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'Many killed' in Burma violence

Thursday, October 25th 2012, 15:25

At least 56 people have been killed and hundreds of homes torched since Sunday as clashes spread in Burma's Rakhine state, officials say.
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'Mass Hindu grave' found in Myanmar's Rakhine state

Monday, September 25th 2017, 11:21

Myanmar authorities accuse Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindus in Rakhine state.
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'No buried Spitfires' in Burma

Friday, January 18th 2013, 10:57

Archaeologists in Burma have concluded that there are no WW2 Spitfires buried at the sites where they have been digging, the BBC understands.
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'No progress' in Burma says NLD

Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 16:56

Burma's opposition says there has been no progress on dialogue with the government in the past month.
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'No progress' on Burma rights vow

Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 16:49

Burma's military rulers have not delivered on pledges of democratic reform, a leading human rights group says.
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'Safer here'

Sunday, August 30th 2009, 2:49
related countries: China

Burmese refugees flee to Chinese border town
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'Six million Burmese need food'

Wednesday, January 28th 2009, 16:04

Six million Burmese now need food aid, despite a healthy national rice surplus, warns the UN's World Food Programme.
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'Tear gas used' on Burma monks

Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 13:18
related places: Rangoon

Burma's military authorities use tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of monks, reports say.
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'Thousands flee Burma violence'

Wednesday, August 26th 2009, 19:20
related countries: China

Thousands of people flee into China from Burma as the government pressures ethnic rebel groups, say reports.
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'Threat' to EU-Burma embargo

Monday, July 16th 2007, 0:47
related countries: India

Indian plans to sell an attack helicopter to Burma threaten an EU arms embargo, a rights group says.
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'White phosphorus' at Burma protest

Thursday, February 14th 2013, 11:12

Burmese police fired military-issue white phosphorus grenades to disperse protesters at a controversial copper mine, a new report alleges.
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'White' elephant captured in Burma

Tuesday, June 29th 2010, 16:40

A rare 'white' elephant, a traditional symbol of good fortune in south-east Asia, is captured in Burma, state media reports.
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90,000 displaced in Burma unrest

Wednesday, June 20th 2012, 9:12

Around 90,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the west of Burma, according to a United Nations body.
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A BBC bureau for Burma

Monday, December 2nd 2013, 17:54

Bureau to open in Myanmar next year
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A Burmese migrant battles the odds

Sunday, October 5th 2014, 19:09

Burmese migrant battles the odds to become his own boss
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A vote of confidence in Burma

Thursday, March 29th 2012, 0:20

Why the world is watching by-elections in Burma
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After the cyclone

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 21:46

Three months on, Burmese villagers are still struggling
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Agencies told to end Rohingya aid

Thursday, August 2nd 2012, 15:29
related countries: Bangladesh

The Bangladeshi authorities order three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Burma.
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Aid arriving in cyclone-hit Burma

Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 20:17

Foreign aid begins to arrive in cyclone-ravaged Burma, but complaints remain that access to aid workers is being denied.
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Aid call as Burma casualties rise

Tuesday, May 6th 2008, 10:11

Aid agencies push to launch a massive operation in cyclone-hit Burma, where up to 15,000 people are now feared dead.
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Aid effort for cyclone-hit Burma

Monday, May 5th 2008, 8:18

Burma's military rulers are urged to allow aid agencies to work freely in the wake of a devastating tropical cyclone.
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Amos pleads for displaced Burmese

Thursday, December 6th 2012, 17:01

Senior UN humanitarian official Valerie Amos calls for urgent access to some 40,000 people in northern Burma who have been displaced by fighting.
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ANA to buy stake in Burmese carrier

Tuesday, August 27th 2013, 8:19
related countries: Japan

Japan's All Nippon Airways says it will acquire a 49% stake in Asian Wings Airways, an airline based in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Anger greets Suu Kyi conviction

Tuesday, August 11th 2009, 22:27

World leaders express anger and disappointment at the sentencing of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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