Yangon: A top member of Myanmar’s ruling junta has warned that foreign and domestic forces are trying to derail the process of creating a new constitution – something this tightly controlled country has not had since the military seized power in 1988.
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Akyab: All army battalions under Western Command, including border outposts, are now in ready position after the army authority ordered them under high alert, said a report from Akyab.
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January 25: Dhaka: A religious riot broke out in a town of Arakan on January 20, leaving at least 3 people dead, said the All Arakan Students and Youths Congress (AASYC).
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January 24: Instead of lending a helping hand to the Burmese Tsunami survivors in Thailand, the Military Junta has collected money and fined video rental shops for renting videos of the disastrous Tsunami and relief work.
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Dhaka: The issue surrounding the tri-partisan gas pipeline project is not on the agenda of a talk involving Indian and Bangladeshi Prime Ministers during the upcoming SAARC summit.
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Kuala Lumpur: Southeast Asian nationals will no longer need to obtain visas when travelling to 10 countries in the region by the end of this year, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in remarks published by the Star newspaper.
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United Nations officials have held talks with authorities in southern Thailand on the plight of foreign migrant workers caught up in last month’s tsunami disaster.
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January 25: New Delhi: Ethnic groups of Burma staged a rally in New Delhi, the capital of India against SPDC’s brutalities on religion in Burma yesterday.
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