The embassies of South Korea and corporate offices of Daewoo located in eight countries will be the sites of protests against the controversial Shwe Gas Project in Burma on October 14.
(more…)

October 4: The Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) so-called constructive engagement with Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), is making democratic reforms in Burma more complicated, said ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC).

The criticism came after a meeting of AIPMC members with their European Union counterparts at Brussels to discuss the situation in Burma on 4 October.

They insisted that ASEAN’s decision to allow Burma to forgo its chance of taking the rotating chairmanship in 2006 is only an attempt to avoid diplomatic pressures and it would not solve the problems in Burma without looking for new approaches.

The meeting was attended by AIPMC members from Thailand and the Philippines led by its chairman Malaysian MP Zaid Ibrahim, EU experts on Asia, some MEPs and Harn Yawnghwe of Euro-Burma Office.

South Korea’s Daewoo International signed an agreement Monday with three partners to explore Block A-3, off the northwestern coast of Myanmar.
(more…)

Nearly 600 Chinese buyers, both from Hong Kong and mainland China, poured into Myanmar’s twice-yearly auction of jade and gems, which the junta hopes will earn more than 43 million dollars, officials said Wednesday.
(more…)

The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry yesterday (4 October 2005) warned the international community not to pursue further sanctions against the country.
(more…)

A huge network of illegal diesel importers was stumbled on by a police officer in Rangoon this week, implicating several of the Burmese military’s top officials in the scam according to police and civilian sources.
(more…)

Measures to intensify cooperation in and management of border areas between Laos and Myanmar are being discussed at the fifth meeting of the Laos-Myanmar Border Committee held in Vientiane from Oct. 3-5.
(more…)

April 4: The influential Young Mizo Association (YMA), a local youth organisation from Mizoram State in Northern India, closed all the roads into the state from Burma on Sunday to protest illegal border trade.
(more…)

April 4: In order to build a motorway from Paidawei Village, Bilin Township to Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda Kinmoon pilgrim camp in southern Burma’s Mon State, Burmese authorities have been subjecting the local population to forced labour, and confiscating their lands and farms.
(more…)

Rev. Aunglai 48 s/o Cang Kik, currently a Ph.D. scholar in United State of America, was wanted by the Military Regime for his dissertation on Inter-Cultural Studies: he seeks asylum in the State.
(more…)

Myanmar has begun work on launching a frequency modulated (FM) radio station in the country’s second largest city of Mandalay, according to the Public Relations and Information Department Wednesday.
(more…)