Text of report by Burmese opposition radio Democratic Voice of Burma web site on 22 December
It has been learnt that the situation between military units of the UWSA (United Wa State Army) and the SPDC (State Peace and Development Council) is getting tense.
Four members of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party as well as a former member have been arrested in the capital of military-ruled Myanmar over the past week, party officials said Wednesday.
Burmese authorities are looking for two men suspected in a small explosion at a souvenir and coffee shop in Rangoon that wounded at least one person, government media reported Wednesday.
A bomb caused the explosion that ripped through a restaurant popular with foreign tourists in the capital of military-ruled Myanmar, state media reported Wednesday.
One worker at the restaurant was wounded in the explosion, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported, a day after the blast.
Myanmar will host a tourism forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2006 to seek better ways of promoting the sector in the region, according to the Myanmar Travel Committee Wednesday.
A 20-year-old public relations worker was crowned Wednesday as Myanmar’s first beauty queen since the lifting of a 43-year-old ban on such pageants by the ruling military junta.
The Shan commander whose units are active in eastern Shan State has denied last week’s ambush that killed a junta colonel had anything to do with the Shan State Army.
Lt-Col Gawn Zeun, Commander of the SSA’s Kengtung Front, who has just returned from the annual meeting at a Shan base across Maehongson, categorically spurned off allegations that his fighters were responsible for the ambush on 10 December (S.H.A.N. had reported as 7 September) that resulted in 4 dead, including Col Khin Maung Hla, Tactical Commander from Monghsat, and 7 wounded.
December 21: Unconfirmed and fragmentary reports of Wa officers shooting to death 8 junta officials in Monghsat, opposite Chiangmai province, on Friday, 17 December, are continuing to haunt the border, reports King Cobra:
A woman from Myanmar who had been released on bail Tuesday from the Tokyo immigration center after being detained for illegal entry and separated from her young children said Wednesday that she was anxious during her ordeal and worried about being deported.
YANGON – Aung San Suu Kyi’s pleas are falling on deaf ears these days. Far from heeding the Nobel peace laureate’s cry to stay away from military-ruled Myanmar, tourists are flocking to the mystical, isolated Southeast Asian nation in ever-greater numbers.