August 27: Bangkok: Rumors of a coup among the generals who rule Myanmar, Thailand’s closed and repressive neighbor, flared briefly in the past week and then died away just as suddenly.
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August 28: Yangon: Myanmar’s military rulers announced late Sunday they had outlawed three political groups and an ethnic rebel army, accusing them of intending to disrupt stability in the country.
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Bangkok: A Myanmar dissident group accused by the ruling military junta of involvement in deadly May bombings in the capital Yangon denied the charges on Monday.
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August 28: Yangon: Myanmar’s police chief on Sunday named two men allegedly responsible for the May 7 bombings that killed 23 people and wounded 162 in the capital of the military-ruled state.
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August 28: Yangon: Military-ruled Myanmar will reconvene talks to draft a new constitution on an unspecified date later this year, a state-run newspaper said Sunday.
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August 28: Yangon: Two Myanmar ministers on Sunday side-stepped questions about whether the regime is considering shifting part of its administration from Yangon to a more secure region in the mountains.
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August 28: Yangon: A Myanmar government spokesman Sunday blamed the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for broadcasting a false coup report on the country, charging the station with having links with the attack plan of “internal and external destructive elements”.
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August 25: The township court of Rangoon Twante, on 25 August, sentenced a private tuition teacher Aung Pe to three years in prison for saluting the picture of Gen Aung San, Burma’s national hero and father of democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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August 28: Yangon: Myanmar vowed Sunday to continue its fight against HIV/AIDS despite the withdrawal of an international anti-AIDS body from the military-ruled country because of operational restrictions.
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Singapore: Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have not agreed whether to endorse Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, a senior ASEAN official said Monday.
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Ko Min Ko Naing, a prominent student leader from Burma, who also led the 1988 people’s uprising in Burma, has been selected for the Civil Courage Award recently.
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An Auckland man who spent three months in a refugee camp on the Thai/Burmese border believes the only humanitarian thing to do with the camp is to close it.
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