Visitors to Yangon, Myanmar will quickly find that one name carries more weight than any other: Aung San. Cutting west to east across the city is Aung San Road. Downtown, there’s Aung San Market, a ...

NAY PYI TAW, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The six-day third session of Myanmar's 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference concluded in Nay Pyi Taw Monday with 14 more basic principles adopted as Part II of the ...

YANGON, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has planned to hold the third meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in late April or early May, according to a decision of the 7th Joint ...

Myanmar's 21st Century Panglong Ethnic Conference is expected to be held in late July or August, official media quoted U Hla Maung Shwe, secretary of the Preparatory Committee for holding the ...

The Myanmar government, under Aung San Suu Kyi, has kicked off a new phase of the peace process with the country's ethnic minorities. On April 27, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi held a meeting with ...

The second 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference ended in Nay Pyi Taw Monday with some breakthroughs. China expended enormous efforts to prompt seven armed ethnic groups in northern Myanmar to ...

Myanmar's stalled peace process is precariously poised, and may now be in danger of falling apart all together, as mistrust and hostility between some of the ethnic groups and the military worsened ...

Burmese President Htin Kyaw, right, talks with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi during the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in Naypyidaw on Aug. 31, 2016 Nearly seven decades after her father ...

In a letter to the men and women of his country, the archbishop of Yangon stresses the importance of government-led peace talks with ethnic minorities. The conference scheduled for 31st August will be ...

Politically, Myanmar is experiencing a new phase under its new government. Undoubtedly, the approach toward national reconciliation in Myanmar has changed after the installation of National League for ...

Representatives from Myanmar's various ethnic groups attend the opening ceremony of the 4th Union Peace Conference (21st Century Panglong) at the Myanmar International Convention Center (2) in ...

“Women’s role is to ease tensions,” a public relations expert of an ethnic armed group told me as I sat in his office in northern Burma (also called Myanmar). He and his male colleagues were trying to ...