Yangon: Myanmar will send a two-woman team to the Olympics in Athens next month, a sports official said Thursday.
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July 19: Members of an American non-government organisation, Teachers Across Borders, have for the first time presented a special education program in Myanmar.
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Burmese authorities seized an unspecified amount of cocaine and heroin from boats in the international waters last week, according to sources in Rangoon. The seizure appears to have been one of the biggest in years and is the first to have involved cocaine, but state-run newspapers have not yet reported it.
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July 21: (Presenter) Dear listeners: NLD (National League for Democracy) spokesman U Lwin said a petition calling for the release of all political prisoners, including Burmese democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD Vice-Chairman U Tin Oo, will be signed nationwide.
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Yangon: One more new Myanmar government-private joint venture (JV) airline is making preparations to launch domestic flight by October to reinforce the country’s air transportation, the local news journal Day reported Thursday.
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Bangkok: Thailand refused to back down Thursday over the controversial inclusion of military-run Myanmar at key trade talks with the European Union planned for October.
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Bangkok: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan had South-east Asia’s premier diplomatic grouping in sight when he released a press statement on Burma, one of its member countries, at the sidelines of the just-concluded International AIDS Conference.
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Yangon: The number of internet users in Myanmar has grown to nearly 70,000 since 2000 when it was first introduced to the country, a local news journal reported Wednesday.
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A Burmese journalist was released from prison on the12 of July four months after his sentence had been completed.
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July 20: Maungdaw: Nasaka issued an ultimatum to the Rohingya villagers whether to pay Kyats 500,000 per house or to demolish their tin roofed houses in Maungdaw Township, northern Arakan State of Burma, according to our correspondent, in side Arakan.
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As the United States renewed economic sanctions on July 7, Myanmar’s garment industry is more stable than when the stricter sanctions were first introduced at the end of August last year, industry sources told Myanmar Times last week.
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Thailand has expressed its willingness to resume the talks on Burma which were suspended in April 2004. Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said on Tuesday that Bangkok is ready to host the second round of the “Bangkok Process” and wants Burma to join the forum.
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Registration for Thailand’s alien workers just got easier. The Thai Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare announced on Wednesday that illegal migrants no longer need their employers or landlords to accompany workers to district offices to fill out the registration forms.
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Beijing: China is holding a U.S.-based dissident who disappeared while traveling in Myanmar, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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Britain is under attack from European and Asian countries demanding that it abandon its policy of ostracising the Burmese military regime.
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July 20: The People’s Republic of China and the Union of Myanmar Burma established diplomatic ties on 8 June, 1950. The two countries share a 2,210-km-long common border and the governments and the peoples of the two nations enjoy a long history of friendship, adhering to the policy of mutual respect, equality and non-interference in the internal affairs of each other. Moreover, the two countries have been cooperating in political and cultural fields, especially in economy and trade.
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July 18: Akyab: It has been learnt that foreign aid donated to SPDC military government was unable to reach cyclone victims in many places of Arakan state.
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July 17: New Manerplaw, Burma: The distinctive metallic clang of an M-16 round sliding into the firing chamber causes everyone inside the hut to pause. After 55 years of warfare in these jungles, it’s an unsurprising reaction.
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July 18: Dr Cynthia Maung, the “Mother Teresa of Burma”, is the recipient of many international awards, including the 2002 Magsaysay Award for community leadership. She runs the Mae Tao Clinic in the bustling Thai town of Mae Sot bordering Burma.
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Chris Beyrer has worked on HIV/AIDS issues along the Thai-Burma border since the early 1990s and is now associate research professor and director of the Johns Hopkins University Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program. He spoke with Irrawaddy reporter Naw Seng about efforts in Burma to control the epidemic.
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