Sources: BBC
Burma pledges to release 3000 prisoners a month before it hosts a Southeast Asian summit. 2014-10-7
Burma releases 500 prisoners, including at least 58 political prisoners and foreigners, in an amnesty. 2012-09-18
Coca-Cola says that it will start doing business in Burma after sixty years as soon as the U.S. government issues a license allowing American companies to make such investments. 2012-06-14
British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a historic visit to Burma (Myanmar), becoming the first British Prime Minister to visit that country. 2012-04-13
Reforms in Burma: Burma announces a mass pardon for political prisoners, including student leader Min Ko Naing. 2012-01-13
Burmese state media say rebels in the northeast of the country killed seven workers from a Chinese-backed hydroelectric power project. 2011-08-5
Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates her first birthday in freedom for more than 10 years. 2011-06-19
Burma jails five more dissidents on charges including associating with dissident groups abroad. 2011-02-25
Burma's state media publishes its first criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi since her release. 2011-02-13
Humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières accuses Bangladesh of a "crackdown" on Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma. 2010-02-18