Bangkok: Myanmar’s military government on Friday denied allegations by a press freedom group that it had shut down a magazine, saying the journal had temporarily stopped publication because of financial difficulties.
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Duwa Bawmwang Sinwa Naw, a member of the New Democratic Army-Kachin, or NDA-K, was killed in a small grenade blast in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina on Wednesday evening.
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September 16: Yangon: Pro-democracy parties have repeated their demands for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar including opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi and her deputy Tin Oo, according to a statement.
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September 23: Thailand is tightening its grip on the ethnic-minority groups that have taken refuge from fighting and human-rights abuses in neighbouring Burma.
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Yangon: Myanmar on Friday launched a fierce attack on the United States for a second consecutive day and said Washington had “irresponsibly” blamed the military-run state for failing to do enough to combat drugs.
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A Myanmar-China border trade fair will be held in Myanmar’s border town of Muse linking China’s Ruili to boost the border trade between the two countries.
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Human security, international terrorism and United Nations reforms will be high on Foreign Affairs Minister Surakiart Sathirathai’s agenda during the 59th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, a ministry spokesman
said yesterday.
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September 23: The University of Washington’s Alumni Association in early September joined at least three other United States educational groups in suspending their sponsorship of tours to Burma because of continuing human-rights violations by the military rulers of the Southeast Asian nation.
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September 16: Strasbourg, France: Europe’s decision to ease the international isolation of military-ruled Myanmar by letting it attend an Asia-Europe summit could increase repression, the European Parliament said on Thursday.
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Consistent with section 706 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for FY03 (PL 107-228), the President today has identified the following countries as major drug-transit or major illicit drug-producing countries: (more…)

Tomorrow will mark the 16th anniversary of the Burmese military regime’s vicious suppression of the nationwide democracy movement. On September 18, 1988, the military seized power, killing several thousands of peaceful demonstrators across the country.
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