November 20: Rangoon: Burma’s military government said it had begun releasing thousands of prisoners who may have been wrongly imprisoned by a recently disbanded military intelligence unit. (more…)

National League for Democracy party spokesperson U Lwin denied on report that U Win Tin was released. (more…)

Military-ruled Myanmar on Friday freed several prominent opposition party figures as part of a mass prisoner release one month after a power struggle ousted the country’s premier. (more…)

Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad has paid an unannounced and brief visit to Myanmar to study the latest development of the country’s situation, diplomatic sources said on Friday. (more…)

November 18: Lian comes to Champhai early in the morning from Burma and returns in the evening to earn 50 to 100 rupees ( 43 rupees equals one US dollar). (more…)

A court in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province sentenced four drug traffickers to death Thursday 19 November . The Intermediate People’s Court of the provincial capital Xi’an ordered death penalty for Yang Naijun, Liu Tianshun and Du Songhua, the three leaders of the province’s most notorious drug trafficking case. (more…)

At least 50 persons, including a magistrate and members of law-enforcing agencies, were injured during clashes with Rohingya refugees of Myanmar at the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh’s southeastern district of Cox’s Bazar Thursday. (more…)

The International Labour Organisation on Friday warned Myanmar’s government that it was ready to revive sanctions, after the agency concluded that the military junta had shown little political will to stop forced labour. (more…)

When crisis hits a ruling regime, the time is ripe for an effective opposition to move into action. It happened once in Burma’s recent history, when nationalist activists thew off the British colonial yoke at a time of crisis in Britain and its Asian empire. (more…)

Dear friends of freedom in Burma:

WE HAVE INCREDIBLE NEWS!!! And a note of caution… But first the good news: Burma’s second most prominent political prisoner after Aung San Suu Kyi, a student leader named Min Ko Naing, has been released!!! (more…)

Amnesty International welcomes the release from prison today of at least 20 political prisoners in Myanmar. The Burmese authorities announced yesterday that they would release 3,937 prisoners, after finding that “improper deeds” were used to imprison them. (more…)