April 16: The admittance of Myanmar into Asean in 1997 promised a rocky ride that has now materialised.
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A leading US senator lashed out at China and India yesterday over their policy towards the Rangoon government following the release of the United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution on Burma, The Nation reports.
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Trade Unions of New Zealand have urged the government and the people to support the international sanction on Burma’s military dictatorship for alleged atrocities on the country’s people.
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April 18: Washington: Congress expected to put pressure on Thailand for stance towards Rangoon, treatment of refugees.
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Thailand’s Supreme Commander urged Thai employers not to worry too much about cheap labour shortage, saying that moves by Rangoon to register their citizens working abroad will help ease law enforcement burden in Thailand.
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The Philippines will not initiate moves to deny Myanmar its forthcoming rotating chairmanship of the ASEAN next year, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Tuesday.
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The Senate plans to hold an urgent meeting to clarify its stance on the controversial question of Burma taking up the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year. (more…)

The chief of the 3rd Army Area Command, Lt. Gen. Phichanmet Muangmanee, has downplayed the political implications of yesterday’s skirmish between border control police and a group of armed men from across the Myanmar border, stressing that the group were merely bandits and had nothing to do with Myanmar’s internal political situation.
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Chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Senior-General Than Shwe has declared a Shan ethnic group of Sao Kai Hpa, son of the first Myanmar President Nyaung Shwe Sao Shwe Htike, as outlawed organization, Radio Myanmar quoted an order of the Ministry of Home Affairs as reporting Tuesday night.
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First Secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Lieutenant-General Thein Sein has urged his people to safeguard the perpetuation of the union as a national duty.
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, announced on Tuesday it would not support the recent declaration of Shan State independence by exiled Shan politicians.
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