LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- A Myanmar defector says Than Shwe, leader of the country's military junta, personally ordered the massacre of 81 unarmed civilians in 1998.
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar, May 29 (UPI) -- Officials in Myanmar have been issuing visas to relief workers, but are not granting workers access to areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis this month, groups say.
YANGON, Myanmar, May 27 (UPI) -- Relief agencies say they are starting to get more personnel into Myanmar nearly a month after a cyclone left some 135,000 people dead or missing.
YANGON, Myanmar, May 23 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prevailed on Myanmar military leader Gen. Than Shwe Friday to let foreign workers in the country for cyclone relief work.
YANGON, Myanmar, May 22 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday complained to military leaders in cyclone-hit Myanmar that foreign relief workers have been kept out.
YANGON, Myanmar, May 21 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, en route to Myanmar, said Wednesday that aid to the stricken country "should not be politicized."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The United States has leveled additional sanctions against Myanmar's leaders for their "unacceptable" actions that thwart democracy, the White House said.
YONGON, Myanmar, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Myanmar's military junta has reportedly arrested a noted poet for a love verse that allegedly contained a hidden message against the junta's leader.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. first lady Laura Bush used the 60th anniversary of Myanmar's independence Friday to condemn the country's military junta for its abuse of human rights.