August 15: The Ministry of Labour of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), officially notified the family of Win Lwin who was killed during a forced labour session that no compensation would be forthcoming for his death.
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Yangon: A Myanmar copy of a tooth relic of the Buddha was back on display in a Yangon pagoda Tuesday after being stolen in a daring raid, a security official said.
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Trained sniffer dogs assigned to cross-border towns have been reassigned to Burma’s two main cities Rangoon and Mandalay since yesterday, reports a source close to the Army.
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A Thai-Burma border-based advocacy group, Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), has published a handbook for former political prisoners and their families in Burmese. (more…)

Asian countries threatened by the continuing bird flu epidemic Thursday agreed to set up a centralised reserve ‘bank’ of anti-bird flu virus vaccine.
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Bangalore: Even as counter-insurgency cooperation between the armies of India and Myanmar has grown in recent years, collaboration between the navies of Myanmar and China – India’s rival – on issues impinging on India’s national security interests is moving far more rapidly, and now a Sino-Myanmar joint intelligence operation is underway near India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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August 15: ANC, or the Arakan National Council, an umbrella organization of Arakanese people, held the 38th Memorial Day anniversary of the rice killing day at various locations around the world including Thailand, Bangladesh, India and Malaysia, on 13 August, 2005.
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August 15: Next to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine, where Japan commemorates its war dead, is the equally controversial Yasukuni Yushukan Museum, which exhibits military uniforms, weapons and other war memorabilia. (more…)