Htin Kyaw, Aung San Suu Kyi's adviser, has been chosen President of the first civilian government in the new democratic Parliament of Myanmar after 50 years.
Nobel Peace laureate Aung Suu Kyi and her NLD allies are in position to form the first democratically elected government since 1962 after historic November elections.
Burmese police have detained the teenaged son of a prominent Chinese dissident, apparently while the youth was trying to defect to the United States.
The Chinese government has reacted strongly after a warplane from Myanmar killed four Chinese citizens on the Chinese side of the border.
Health officials are deeply concerned about a strain of drug-resistant malaria that has appeared throughout South East Asia.
