Yangon: Military-ruled Myanmar has released at least 11 dissidents among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in its latest mass release, opposition parties and officials said Monday.
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Yangon: All 5,070 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military regime’s third mass release programme in under a month have been let out of jail, the government announced Monday.
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Yangon: Myanmar leader Lieutenant-General Thein Sein has called on his people to participate in every step of the government’s seven-point political roadmap to democracy and building of a discipline-flourishing democratic nation.
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Yangon: An ageing adversary of Myanmar’s military rulers who was among the first to encourage Aung San Suu Kyi to enter politics, said Monday that he would abandon the struggle as he did not want to go to jail again.
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Burma’s military government has launched attacks on its own population with more than 8000 villagers fleeing into refugee camps in neighbouring Thailand.
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Yangon: A world Buddhist summit ended Saturday in military-ruled Myanmar, hailed as a great success by the country’s premier but derided as a sham by some of the nation’s senior monks.
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The Karen rebel leader Gen Bo Mya is still playing a leading military role in the Karen National Union, or KNU, although he has abandoned the position of vice-chairman due to poor health, according to a Karen leader.
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December 11: Even as the Burmese Government seeks Indian Companies to investment in the country, Indian companies remain somewhat reluctant to investment in Burma at the present time. Instead, they favour conducting a detailed market survey in Burma for future investment.
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Yangon: The Myanmar government will privatize a dozen more state-owned factories in the country under its privatization plan, the local Business Tank reported in its latest issue.
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December 11: Bangkok: Myanmar’s military junta has reasonable and convincing reasons for continuing to keep pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house
arrest, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Saturday.
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Los Angeles: Oil giant Unocal Corp. has reached an agreement in principle to settle human rights lawsuits involving allegations of enslaved labor during a 1990s pipeline project in Southeast Asia, a company spokesman said.
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