Thein Sein

YANGON, May 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's government has freed 23 political prisoners, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday, the day President Thein Sein was due to leave for a landmark visit to the United States. The official declined to be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to welcome Myanmar President Thein Sein (tayn sayn) to the White House Monday. It will be the first visit by a Myanmar head of state in nearly 47 years and a sign of warming ties between the...

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Myanmar President Thein Sein will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on May 20 as Obama continues to push the country to make reforms while it moves away from military rule, the White House said on...

By Jared Ferrie SITTWE, Myanmar, May 15 (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, before a cyclone reaches camps in low-lying regions that have been their home...

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - A 16-year-old Muslim boy lay dying on a thin metal table. Bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, he convulsed and drooled as his parents wedged a stick between his teeth to stop him from biting off his tongue. Swift treatment...

YANGON, April 30 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co opened the first Western car dealership in Myanmar on Tuesday, hoping its models can take market share from Japanese brands that dominate the country's potholed streets. The move helps Myanmar become further...

By Jared Ferrie MEIKHTILA, Myanmar, April 30 - In Myanmar's central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims who lost their homes in a deadly rampage by Buddhist mobs in March. Many are detained in prison-like camps, unable...

NEW DELHI, India -- Ever since Myanmar opened to the West, released political prisoners and allowed the opposition led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to run for office, it has been dogged by tensions among its many ethnic and religious minorities....

By Jared Ferrie YANGON, April 25 (Reuters) - Introduced a decade and a half ago under Myanmar's former military rulers, SIM cards sold for as much as $7,000 apiece. Today, they still cost more than $200. From Thursday, lucky winners of a lottery-style...

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON, April 23 (Reuters) - Myanmar's president announced an amnesty on Tuesday for about 100 prisoners, a senior official said, of whom 56 were confirmed as political detainees by a group monitoring activists held in the country's...

* EU ministers agree to lift all sanctions, except arms embargo * Step could raise pressure on U.S. to follow suit * Rights group accuses Myanmar authorities of crimes against humanity By Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak LUXEMBOURG, April 22 (Reuters)...

The European Union discarded the last of its economic sanctions against Myanmar on Monday, despite fresh reports that Rohingya Muslims there face bloody and persistent attempts at "ethnic cleansing." The decision worried activists working to help the...