Sources: BBC
Burmese military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing is named acting president of Myanmar after previous acting president Myint Swe takes medical leave. 2024-07-22
An Air Bagan plane carrying more than 60 passengers, including many foreigners, from the city of Yangon to Heho Airport in Shan State, Burma, makes an emergency landing, killing a passenger and a motorcyclist and injuring 11 others. 2012-12-25
Burmese protest leader U Gambira is released by authorities in Yangon after being held overnight. 2012-02-11
Burmese state media say rebels in the northeast of the country killed seven workers from a Chinese-backed hydroelectric power project. 2011-08-5
The Burmese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, grants Aung San Suu Kyi's younger son Kim Aris a visa to see her. 2010-11-22
Two ethnic Karen rebel armies in eastern Burma join forces in advance of a possible crackdown by the military government. 2010-11-12
About 20,000 people flee Burma to escape fighting between the Burmese military and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in Karen State after the recent general election. 2010-11-9
Three explosions occur in the former Burmese capital of Yangon during the city's Water Festival, killing at least 9 people and injuring 178. 2010-04-15
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is disappointed with Burma's military leaders for their lack of democratic progress in the run up to general elections in the country. 2010-03-26
Humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières accuses Bangladesh of a "crackdown" on Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma. 2010-02-18