
Banking services for Myanmar's 51 million people are still severely limited

The presidential nomination process is likely to take place later in the month, NLD members said.

"We are likely to announce the president in the second week of February," said Win Htein, a senior member of the...


"If there was one common challenge to unite the Asia-Pacific region, it would be corruption," an official at Transparency...

"It isn't a greenfield business anymore."

"We need to work for all the ethnic armed groups to be participate in the NCA," Suu Kyi said referring to...

Protesters said the two men were used as scapegoats by authorities in an effort to close the high-profile case.

However a police officer warned it was still too early to say how many have been caught up in the landslide...

"There was little evidence, no witnesses and not much DNA evidence but still they got a death sentence. It's unfair....

The verdicts came after 21 days of witness hearings in a trial that began in July and ended in October.

"The new MPs do know about politics but they need to learn more about the parliament."


Suu Kyi has not commented on either of the pivotal meetings during the day.