Bangkok: U.S.-based activists have launched a campaign to send 6,000 birthday cards to Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained by the country’s military leaders for nearly two years, the group said in a statement.
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April 14: New Delhi: With a threat of arrest and partial fulfillment of demands, Burmese refugees withdrew their protest in front of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) here yesterday.
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Singapore: Press freedom is still restricted within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, despite signs of democratic reforms in some member countries, an independent media watchdog said Thursday.
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Kuala Lumpur: The United Nations is “very disappointed” with Myanmar’s failure to implement democratic reforms and release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, UN special representative Razali Ismail said Thursday.
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Despite all the froth over Chinese rivalry for Unocal, the market took a dim view of ChevronTexaco’s Dollars 18bn trump last week. The 5 per cent fall in shares reflected more than the usual technical trade exacted on an acquirer.
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April 12: On a hot April morning, wearing rich traditional costumes, over 160 villagers from a village called Weigyi on the Thai-Burma border, gathered at the Salween River bank to conduct the annual traditional land veneration ceremony.
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Over 170 soldiers of an armed ethnic group surrendered their weapons to the government this week as part of a 10-year-old cease-fire agreement, state-run newspapers reported Thursday.
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April 8: Christians among the ethnic Karen, Karenni, Chin and Kachin nationalities suffer particularly harsh persecution, according to national and international human rights groups.
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April 13: The United Wa State Army’s Wei Hsuehkang-led 171st Military Region threw more than a thousand missiles at the twin Shan bases across Maehongson’s Pang Mapha district yesterday but still unable to seize any vital positions, reported Shan and Thai sources:
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Yangon: Former Shan rebels have handed over their weapons to Myanmar’s (Burma’s) military regime in exchange for “unconditional” peace, media reports said Thursday.
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