Paleontologists from China, New Zealand and the United States have four fossils of whole mushrooms in Burmese amber of at least 99 million years old found in Myanmar. Therewith are ever found the oldest complete mushrooms.
China has collected more than 20,000 refugees from Myanmar. They crossed the border for fear of the bitter struggle between rebel groups and government forces. This week there were in Laukkai thirty kill by attacking ethnic Chinese rebels on police targets, military and government. Beijing is alarmed by the situation and called on the warring parties to a cease-fire.
Police in Myanmar looked surprised when she found during a check of the car of a Buddhist monk in the town of Maungdaw 400,000 methamphetamine pills. When the police took a look at the convent where the man came from, they found another 4.2 million pills.
In a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar are four million methamphetamine pills were found. A monk is associated with the party drug representing a street value of at least 7.5 million.
The army and police in Myanmar have been guilty of mass murder and rape of Rohingya. Moreover, burned his village of the Muslim Rohingya. It is therefore very likely that there had been crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. That the United Nations Human Rights Council said Friday.
An important legal adviser to the Government of Myanmar Sunday afternoon in broad daylight shot at the Yangon airport. Could Ni was fired outside the terminal of the busiest airport in Myanmar. In the attack were two others injured.
The Order of Malta is refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Vatican for the dismissal of a senior member of the order in connection with the distribution of tens of thousands of condoms in Myanmar. The order is given to understand the Vatican that it does not need to interfere.
Scientists have discovered 163 new animal and plant species in the so-called Mekong region in Southeast Asia. This is stated in the publication issued Monday 'Curious Art Cabinet 'of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The UN Office for Human Rights has called on the Government of Myanmar to allow independent observers to the state of Rakhine. The agency claims to receive daily reports of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims are not recognized as citizens by the authorities.
The United Nations have to visit the Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged the northwest of the country. She must reassure citizens in the border area that they are safe, despite reports that soldiers have raped Rohingya Muslims, civilians killed and houses destroyed.
The Indonesian police have arrested a Muslim extremist who was in possession of a large amount of material to make bombs. The 23-year-old Rio Priatna Wibawa would plan was thus to carry out attacks on government buildings and the embassy of Myanmar.
Myanmar's army is engaged in a 'collective punishment' of the Muslim minority in the west of the country, 'ethnic cleansing' as the ultimate goal. That accusation voiced strong UN official John McKissick Thursday told the BBC.
More than three thousand people have fled from Myanmar to China, due to fighting between the government and rebels. Among them are injured refugees. Stray shells are even cases across the border on Chinese soil, saying China.
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to stay out of the grip of the Burmese army. In recent days there has been heavy fighting between the army and Rohingya Muslims.
Fighting between the military and what the Myanmar government calls a militant Islamic group, have this weekend dozens of lives. The encounter took place in the Rakhine province in the northwest of the country.
In a collision between Myanmar's army and Muslim militants in the state of Rakhine are Saturday eight people were killed. 36 people have been arrested, reports state newspaper The Global New Light of Myanmar.
A large cylindrical metal object on Thursday from the sky fallen into a mining area in northern Myanmar. At the same time a smaller fell metal object through the roof of a house. It reported several media in Myanmar Friday.
The military in Myanmar has several thousand Rohingya from their homes in the northwest of the country, after attacks in the area by members of the security forces. Which sources have told within the Muslim Rohingya community.
An accident involving a ferry in northwest Myanmar has cost certainly fourteen lives. Dozens of people are missing, said one of the rescuers Monday.
President Obama lifted the US economic sanctions against Myanmar Friday. In a letter to Congress, he writes that Myanmar 'substantial progress' made towards democracy, including elections in November 2015 which brought the party of former opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to power.
The Thai Ministry of Health confirmed Friday that two women have borne children with little skulls after they were infected during their pregnancy with zikavirus.
The Thai police on Friday raided a crack house in Bangkok made a startling discovery. There were detected as expected narcotics, weapons and false passports, but when opening a locked cabinet on the ground floor there is a corpse rolled out.
"The United States no longer impose duties on thousands of products from Myanmar. The US government wants to Myanmar as reward for the past few years to encourage democratization and to pursue that course."
"The Chinese military wants to work more closely with the armed forces of Myanmar. That said a top Chinese officer during a visit to the Southeast Asian country, state media reported Saturday."
US President Barack Obama plans to further ease sanctions against Myanmar. Which sources left out by the US government to Reuters. Mid-September brings the foreign minister of the Southeast Asian country, Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Washington.
After almost seventy years of bloody battles between all kinds of separatist groups Wednesday gave the initial impetus to the peace process in impoverished Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi opened in the capital Naypyidaw a four-day meeting with over 1700 delegates, accompanied by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN.
Authorities in Myanmar Thursday sent troops and police to the approximately 187 temples and pagodas in the country that have been damaged by the earthquake on Wednesday. On that quake, with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale, three people were killed.
An earthquake in Myanmar on Wednesday certainly claimed three lives. The victims were two young girls and an adult. The famous temple complex of Bagan in the middle of the country has also damaged by the natural disaster. Buddhist temples and pagodas are among the main tourist attractions of the Asian country.
Also been to Myanmar, formerly Burma, there is an earthquake Wednesday. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake was in the Asian country, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. There are no reports of casualties or damage.
