New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.

As the APEC meeting in Singapore with US President Barack Obama in attendance draws closer, Myanmar's military rulers are again hinting on the relaxation of certain internal rules to give way for the possible release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi

The Prime Minister of Myanmar Thein Sein and US President Barack Obama may hold a dialogue on democratic reforms in Myanmar during the APEC meeting in Singapore next week where the two heads of State will participate.

Two senior U.S. diplomats arrived in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, on Tuesday for a visit which is due to see them meet with the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently under house arrest.

He is both revered and feared. Phra Kru Ba Neua Chai quietly withdrew from a successful career as a Muay Thai fighter to ordain as a Buddhist Monk in 1992. .

In November 2007, the Rainbow and the Hirsute Paphiopedilum Orchids were reported as extinct in Burma. But there is good news about the unique flower.

The on-going summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) started with only half of the Asean heads of States in attendance due to unforeseen events in their countries including typhoons and other calamities.

A rights group has accused Western energy giants Total and Chevron of helping the military regime in Burma earn nearly $5 billion from gas projects that they run in the Southeast Asian country.

Visible only in museums and studied only through specimens, the Arakan forest turtle -- one of the world's rarest species of turtle, has been seen in the wild for the first time.

A female elephant from Thailand who had loss her leg 10 years ago, endured painful surgery and was given an artificial leg, Saturday.