Bangkok: A group of global dignitaries, including two Nobel Peace prize winners, released Tuesday an open letter of solidarity to Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest.

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Brussels: The EU will voice its concerns about democracy and human rights in Myanmar including Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued detention, at unprecedented talks with the Yangon regime this week, officials said Tuesday.

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In a bid to give a boost to the growing Indo-Burma trade, the Manipur Government in the North East India has inaugurated a trade centre at Porompot, near the state capital of Imphal.

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Dhaka: Dhaka will hold an inter-ministerial meeting on May 16 for a strategy to get implemented its conditions on the proposed tri-nation gas pipeline from Burma to India through Bangladesh.

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You often hear Canadian firms complain about U.S. trade policies, but a Vancouver-based mining junior is hoping to benefit from a U.S. crackdown on gem exports from Burma.

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Troops would comb `suspicious’ areas

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Rangoon: The leader of Burma’s ruling junta said the country was pursuing its own roadmap to democracy and indicated that it would oppose any attempts at secession from the country.
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Yangon: An agricultural project in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, funded by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is making progress with improved yields gained, said a report of the Myanmar Times in this week’s issue. 

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After more than a decade of logging by the Burmese junta, wealthy Chinese businessmen and ethnic ceasefire groups, the forests of northern Burma have been all but destroyed, according to Kachin officials and businessmen in Kachin State. 

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The Kachin splinter group in Shan State has been notified by the Burma Army to assemble at their Kawngkha headquarters in Kutkhai township, northern Shan State by tomorrow (4 May) for the next ‘Exchange arms for peace’ ceremony, according to ceasefire sources: