U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a "free and fair" vote in Myanmar as the country's state media announced a date for the first election in 20 years.
Myanmar will hold general elections on November 7, Myanmar National Radio announced Friday, in the military junta-led nation's first vote since 1990.
March 1962: Then-Burma comes under military rule by Ne Win after a bloodless coup.
Indian officials welcomed the top leader of Myanmar's military junta Sunday in a visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the neighboring countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed U.S. concerns about Myanmar's reported military ties to North Korea and its potential impact on the region during a visit to Vietnam Thursday.
A former aide to detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from a prison in northern Myanmar after spending more than 20 years behind bars, officials said Friday.
At least 46 people died when heavy rains triggered landslides in western Myanmar, the nation's state media reported Thursday.
A key member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced Thursday that he has postponed an upcoming trip to Myanmar out of concern that Myanmar's government is working with North Korea on the development of a nuclear program.
Myanmar's Prime Minister Thein Sein and several other ministers resigned from their military posts Monday so they can take part in the country's upcoming elections.
The government of Myanmar said three bombs caused the deadly blasts that ripped through Yangon on Thursday, an action it calls a terrorist attack.
The political party of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi has decided not to participate in elections this year in Myanmar, which is formerly known as Burma.
Myanmar's junta chief spoke Saturday of pending political and economic change even as an ostentatious parade served as a reminder of the isolated nation's military might.
Key U.N. member countries are not pleased with Myanmar despite the Asian nation's plan to hold its first general elections in 20 years.
Myanmar authorities have released an American human rights activist who was handed a five-year prison sentence in February.
Malaysian authorities have arrested a boatload of ethnic minorities fleeing Myanmar off the holiday island of Langkawi.
CNN's Dan Rivers follows the story of hundreds of Rohingya refugees as they escape persecution in Myanmar and escape to Thailand.
A senior leader of the party of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released Saturday night at the end of his six-year house arrest.
A U.S. citizen and human rights activist was sentenced to five years in prison in Myanmar, the man's attorney said Wednesday.
From hard-hitting documentary "Burma VJ" to the "Terribly Happy," this year's Academy Awards nominee.
Danish films have been winning fans and prizes this year, with a broad range of hits from controversial "Antichrist" to budget documentaries about Burma.
More than 400 lawmakers from around the world have urged the United Nations to investigate Myanmar's military junta, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity.
One of two U.S. officials who made a rare trip to Myanmar said Thursday that the United States was willing to improve relations if that nation's ruling military junta takes tangible steps towards democracy.
Two U.S. diplomats arrived in Myanmar Tuesday and will meet with imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The film "Burma VJ" takes a look at the 2007 Buddhist monk protests and subsequent military crackdown in Myanmar.
Sen. Jim Webb will meet with Myanmar's prime minister Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the Virginia Democrat's office announced.
U.S. announces a new policy on Myanmar, to couple existing sanctions with direct dialogue. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Myanmar's government announced Thursday that it will begin circulating a new currency note next week.
Thousands are fleeing the fighting in Myanmar, and moving into China. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar poured across the border into southern China at the end of the week to escape fighting there, a provincial official told CNN on Friday.
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar poured across the border into southern China at the end of the week to escape fighting there, a provincial official told CNN Friday.
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb wins the release of an American sentenced to hard labor in Myanmar. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
An American sentenced to seven years hard labor in Myanmar after he sneaked into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, arrived in Thailand on Sunday with the U.S. senator who secured his release.
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb arrived in Myanmar on Friday where he is scheduled to meet with the reclusive country's military junta, his office confirmed.
Sen. Jim Webb will meet with leaders of Myanmar's military junta this week when he stops off in the reclusive country during a two-week, five-nation tour of Asia, his office announced Wednesday.
Two unrelated earthquakes have triggered tsunami watches in two parts of the world. CNN's Chad Myers reports.
Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition party said Tuesday it was skeptical of the government's plan to grant amnesty to political prisoners, despite an announcement to the United Nations that it would do so.
After several delays, the trial of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi entered its final phase Friday as her lawyer delivered closing arguments under tight security at Yangon's Insein Prison.
The United States is concerned that military cooperation between North Korea and Myanmar could destabilize the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday at a meeting of southeast Asian nations in Bangkok, Thailand.
About 20 members of Myanmar's opposition were arrested Sunday while observing Martyrs' Day, a party spokesman said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Myanmar authorities that they must deliver on a "free and fair" election in 2010.
Be it Iran or North Korea, economic sanctions are a well-used weapon in the diplomatic arsenal for dealing with international disputes. But do they work?
Democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi plans to take the stand Tuesday to defend herself against subversion charges, her spokesman told CNN Monday.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will stand trial Monday for an incident in which an American allegedly swam across a lake and stayed for two days in her closely guarded residence, where she is under house arrest.
Bloggers in Myanmar, Iran and Syria work under some of the most repressive conditions in the world, facing tactics such as regulation, intimidation and even imprisonment, according to a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Paul Risley of the World Food Programme joins CNN to discuss widespread food shortages in Myanmar.
The World Food Program says Myanmar still needs aid one year after a devastating cyclone tore through the country.
Debt problems and lack of credit. A housing crisis and a funding shortfall. These are not the problems of the Western world in the face of the global economic downturn, but some of the lingering challenges in Myanmar one year after devastating Cyclone Nargis hit the country, aid groups said.
Myanmar will allow Rohingya refugees back into the country if they can prove that they are Bengali, Thailand's foreign ministry said.
Scores of boat people who fled Myanmar and are now in Thailand are to be sent back despite human rights groups' concerns they could be tortured or killed upon return.
More migrants found adrift off Sumatra tell rescuers they were towed out to sea and set adrift. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Indonesian authorities found 198 refugees from Myanmar early Tuesday off the country's west coast who said they had been drifting in a wooden boat for three weeks after they'd been towed out to sea by the Thai military.
"Always you have to run for your life," says Boo Htoo, who grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand just across the border from Myanmar.
Nineteen political prisoners were released by the government of Myanmar over the weekend, the human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday.
Thailand's prime minister suspects there were "some instances" in which Myanmar's Rohingya boat people were pushed out to sea, a frank admittance of a practice drawing worldwide condemnation.
CNN's David Challenger tours the Mae La Karen refugee camp in Thailand.
Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest.
Indonesian authorities found 198 refugees from Myanmar early Tuesday off the country's west coast who claimed they had been drifting in a wooden boat for three weeks after being set adrift by Thai military forces.
Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and five senior members of her opposition party met with U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari at the state guesthouse on Monday, a party spokesman said.
A Thai judge fined dozens of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of illegal entry after escaping from their own country a month ago -- amid allegations that other Rohingya have been dumped at sea by the Thai army.
Myanmar is facing a food shortage largely due to last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis, which destroyed nearly all the rice crops in the fertile Ayeyarwaddy delta, the United Nations said Wednesday.
A new boatload of Rohingya refugees washed up on the shores of Thailand early Tuesday, raising questions about the type of treatment they would receive.
Thai lawmakers were probing Thursday "very alarming" reports about its troops abusing and casting out members of a Muslim minority group fleeing to its shores.
Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said Tuesday, in the latest of several probes into the issue.
Thailand's military has denied abusing refugee boat-people from Myanmar after claims some were whipped on a tourist beach and hundreds more left dead or missing after being towed at to sea without food and water.
Almost 25,000 people will die this year of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar unless lifesaving treatment is significantly increased, according to a new report.
Nineteen North Koreans have been released from detention in Myanmar and sent to Thailand, Burmese officials told the U.S.-funded Voice of America news service Thursday.
A rat believed to be extinct for 11 million years, a spider with a foot-long legspan, and a hot pink cyanide-producing "dragon millipede" are among the thousand newly discovered species in the largely unexplored Mekong Delta region.
Courts in Myanmar have sentenced a blogger, a poet and several dissidents to several years in jail for anti-regime activities, a court official told CNN Tuesday.
Dissident journalist Win Tin is seen at a home in Yangon after being released from prison.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday applauded the release of several political prisoners by the government of Myanmar, including the nation's longest-serving political prisoner.
As the first anniversary of the Saffron Revolution nears, Burma's military regime releases over 9000 prisoners, including the nation's longest serving political prisoner, U Win Tin
CNN's Dan Rivers examines the success or failure of UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari's recent trip to Myanmar.
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari wrapped up a six-day visit to Myanmar Saturday, where he met with the ruling military junta and the party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Watch reports from the CNN team for its extensive coverage of Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
CNN's Dan Rivers investigates the dark side of survival.
First Lady Laura Bush visits a refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Myanmar. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Aid to Myanmar
updated: Mon Aug 04 2008 04:48:00
U.N. resident coordinator Bishow Parajuli tells CNN where the aid to Myanmar goes toward and why more is needed.
Burma has ratified a proposed international charter that includes controversial human rights provisions, officials said Monday, a day after regional powers slammed the nation's ruling junta for extending opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention
CNN's Anjali Rao speaks with UNICEF's Michael Bociurkiw about the need for more funds in Myanmar.
Exchanging his sacred Bhuddist robes for a crucifix and his black-colored hair for bleached-blonde, 24-year-old Ashin Kovida found freedom in neighboring Thailand and escaped authorities within Myanmar's oppressive military regime intent on hunting down the pro-democracy leader.
CNN's Dan Rivers profiles a Buddhist monk who led the protests in Myanmar and escaped to tell his tale.
Soldiers reportedly fired into crowds and beat Buddhist monks Thursday, and state media said nine people were killed as Myanmar's military rulers continued its crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
Exclusive video smuggled out of Myanmar shows protesters arrested and beaten by police. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is pushing for a fact-finding mission to Myanmar as video smuggled out of the secretive country shows unarmed protesters being beaten by the military regime's security forces.
The cyclone that devastated Burma's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades
A CNN reporter in Myanmar reports that despite the arrival of aid, its distribution is still a problem.
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
Survival instincts of the Burmese who were affected by a recent cyclone were a major factor in the reduction of deaths in the country
Monsoon rains are hindering relief efforts in Myanmar as humanitarian agencies attempt to get aid into the cyclone-ravaged country, a UNICEF spokesman said on Monday.
CBC's Stephanie Jenzer visits with a man who is reaching out to feed those affected by Cyclone Nargis.
Up to 35,000 pregnant cyclone survivors are in urgent need of proper care in Burma, a U.N. expert said Wednesday
United Nations helicopters fanned out across Burma's
Irrawaddy delta Monday, a U.N. official said, ferrying critical
supplies to villages struggling to survive since a devastating cyclone
struck more than five weeks ago
The White House criticized Burma's ruling junta on Wednesday for refusing to allow U.S. Navy ships to help their country deal with last month's devastating cyclone
U.S. Navy ships loaded with supplies for victims of Myanmar's cyclone will sail away from the country's coast on Thursday, after the ruling junta refused for three weeks to allow them to deliver aid.
IC looks at the handling of the Myanmar disaster over the past month and the ongoing difficulties in reporting.
Footage of all the damage to schools in Myanmar after a cyclone ravaged the country.
More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Burma
Myanmar's defense minister said Sunday his government broadcast warnings before a deadly cyclone hit the country last month -- and it has acted promptly since then in providing relief.
Logistical challenges have kept help from reaching much of Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta region, relief agencies reported Friday.
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