Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party accused the military regime Thursday of endangering party leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s life by restricting her access to a doctor and non-junta security.
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Mon Refugees fleeing from Burma, especially from Southern Ye of Mon State, continues despite the recent expiration date of registration work permits in the kingdom.
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A Chinese-Singaporean consortium has signed an oil and natural gas exploration contract with military-ruled Myanmar, state media said Thursday.
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Ministers of six countries sharing the Mekong River moved a step closer Thursday to freeing up the flow of goods and people in the region by signing several documents needed for the move, and agreeing to complete the remaining negotiations as early as possible in 2005.
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A new warning of looming human rights abuses in Malaysia’s major crackdown on illegal immigrants was issued Thursday as deportations by sea and air picked up pace.
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New York: Although the human rights abuses carried out by Myanmar’s military are widely known, the harm done to the country’s environment is frequently neglected. Since assuming direct power in 1988, the military junta has been conducting an unrelenting assault on Myanmar’s flora and
fauna.
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Washington:  Lawsuits based on a 200-year-old US law appear to have persuaded oil company Unocal to compensate alleged victims of human-rights abuses committed by Myanmar soldiers during the building of an oil pipeline. The tentative settlement was reached in two lawsuits brought by
unnamed Myanmar plaintiffs against the California oil giant for serious rights abuses inflicted against them and their communities by the soldiers.
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