New York: Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist whose dispatches from the war in Chechnya have led to death threats and poisoning, and Min Ko Naing, a Burmese pro- democracy advocate who endured fifteen years of imprisonment and torture, will receive the Civil Courage Prize on Oct. 11.
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The National League for Democracy was legitimately elected to power by a landslide15 years ago in Myanmar, the too often forgotten nation better known as Burma. For most of that time, the NLD’s leader, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been kept under detention by a military junta. (more…)

Australia has agreed to fund an anti-money laundering project and help develop guidelines for financial investigators in Burma.
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Burma’s internationally acclaimed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the highest-ranking woman on a BBC list of icons people would like to see running a global government.
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Kuala Lumpur: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Monday condemned the bomb blasts that killed 26 people on the Indonesian island of Bali over the weekend, promising to pull together and heighten joint efforts to beat terrorism in the region.
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Seoul: Daewoo International Corp., a South Korean trading company, signed a formal agreement Monday [3 October] with two Indian state-run oil and gas companies and a South Korean gas corporation to explore a gas field in Myanmar [Burma], the company said.
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October 2: The KNU secretary-general Phado Mahn Sha said on Saturday that the junta troops have been intensifying blockade in the KNU base areas in Toungoo and Nyaunglaybin districts.
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October 1: Sangkhalaburi: Mon communities have called upon the New Mon State Party not to lay down their arms to the SPDC, as other ceasefire groups in the north have done, sources from Mon state reported.
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April 2: We have learned that the Kyaukme District Court has sentenced Sao Oo Kya, member of the Shan State [Intellectuals] Consultative Council, to 13 years prison term today.
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October 2: All democratic forces in Rangoon have expressed support for and welcomed the call on the United Nations Security Council by former Czech president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu to take action to resolve Burma’s political problems.
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