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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August 25: Burmese military authorities released 17 ethnic Karen-detained last June on suspicion of involvement in the May 7 Rangoon bombings-on August 15, according to a spokesperson for the opposition party National League for Democracy.
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Bangkok: Cartoonist Chit Swe, a member of Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition, has been released from jail after serving a one-month sentence, an international media rights group and Myanmar’s main opposition said Friday.
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Dhaka: After a series of bomb blasts in Bangladesh on August 17th security has been tightened everywhere in Bangladesh, including the two border districts of Cox’s Bazaar and Bandaban, located in southernmost Bangladesh near Burma.
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Bangkok: Senior officials of Asian countries and international groups on Friday called for a new framework to regulate migration labors that have contributed to the region’s development but suffered unfair treatment.
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A judge advocate told the Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday that the court should overturn last year’s ruling by the Chiang Mai Administrative Court ordering the reinstatement of Thai nationality to 866 villagers in Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district, The Nation reports.
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Thailand has much to learn from Taiwan in terms of human rights policy regarding foreign workers. Victimised Thai workers and Thai society in general must gracefully accept the sincere apology offered by Taiwanese Vice President Annette Lu on Wednesday for failure by Taiwanese authorities to enforce labour standards and protect workers’ human rights.
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Yangon: The whereabouts of Than Shwe, leader of Myanmar’s secretive junta, remained a mystery on Thursday, but rumours he had been ousted by the army chief were dying rapidly.
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Burma watchers on both sides of the Tachilek-Maesai border believe the military rulers of the country are launching a covert campaign on its own strongest ally against the Shan State Army:
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Chit Swe, a cartoonist and vice chairman of the National League for Democracy in Thanlyin Township, was released from prison today, a spokesperson for Burma’s main opposition party confirmed.
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