Myanmar Archive

  • SEA Games

    Dentsu to Promote SEA Games in Myanmar

    Leading advertising agency Dentsu announced today that its overseas subsidiary Dentsu Sports Asia has been appointed by the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar as its sponsorship management consultant for the 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) to be held in Naypyidaw,...

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  • Solar Lanterns

    Panasonic to Donate 100,000 Solar Lanterns

    Panasonic Corporation deploys the 100 Thousand Solar Lantern Project, a project to donate a total of 100,000 solar lanterns to people in regions of the world without electricity, by 2018, the 100th anniversary of the company’s founding. As the first stage in this effort, Panasonic...

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  • suukyi

    Nobel Prize Winner Suu Kyi Wins Election in Myanmar

    Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991) Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from house arrest by the Myanmar’s ruling military in 2010, has won in the by-elections held today for 45 vacant parliamentary seats, it’s being said. Although no official confirmation came from the...

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    Human Rights Outfit Welcomes Suu Kyi Release

    Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist organization Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, from house arrest in Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Suu Kyi co-founded the National League for Democracy (NLD), a pro-democracy political party that sought to...

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