Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has received the first indication that the junta may not accept the proposal it made last month to end its long-running political standoff.
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March 29: A team of policemen at Daik-U, Pegu Division in lower central Burma brutally beat up four innocent civilians of the same family in public on 19 March, causing outrage among the local population.
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The Burmese military authority from Rangoon ordered all army battalions in Arakan State to cultivate Physic nuts from this year dry season to promote state income through this agriculture project, said army personnel.
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“The Burmese regime wants absolute control over any humanitarian actor present in these politically-sensitive regions,” explains Dr. Hervé Isambert, Program Manager for the French section of MSF in Myanmar.
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Global Fund, the world’s largest funding body which withdrew its operations from Burma last year, has opened additional malaria posts in three Thai provinces along the Thai-Burmese border.
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A ten-fold increase of Burmese government workers’ salaries at the end of April looks set to further exacerbate the country’s already high inflation.
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The Yangon municipal authorities are seeking ways to cope with rising commodity prices resulting from last Friday’s government decision to raise salaries of civil servants to an unprecedentedly high margin.
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Fifteen Burmese pro-democracy activists have staged a 100 hour long hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the Indian government’s close relationship with the Burmese military.
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Fifteen Burmese pro-democracy activists have staged a 100 hour long hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the Indian government’s close relationship with the Burmese military.
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Fifteen Burmese pro-democracy activists have staged a 100 hour long hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the Indian government’s close relationship with the Burmese military.
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The international medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Thursday it was closing its French office in Myanmar after four years because government restrictions had made it impossible to work there.
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Text of report by D. Arul Rajoo carried in English by Malaysian news agency Bernama website

Bangkok, 29 March: A Myanmar [Burmese] government-in-exile has urged ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] to set clear conditions and pressure the Myanmar government to let ASEAN special envoy Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to meet opposition parties, student activists and, particularly, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who is under house arrest.
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Regional powers China and India must step in to prod Myanmar toward democratic reforms since efforts by its Southeast Asian neighbors have largely failed to bear fruit, the chief of the ASEAN bloc said Thursday.
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A top State Department specialist on Asia says the United States is committed to galvanizing U.N. support for action on Myanmar.
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A prominent Burma expert told a United States senate foreign relations committee yesterday an international coalition was needed to promote democratic change in Burma.
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Neighbours China and India must coax Myanmar to hasten democratic reform, ASEAN’s chief said on Thursday, after an envoy from the Southeast Asian grouping failed to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.
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A top State Department specialist on Asia says the United States is committed to galvanizing U.N. support for action on Myanmar.
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Neighbours China and India must coax Myanmar to hasten democratic reform, ASEAN’s chief said on Thursday, after an envoy from the Southeast Asian grouping failed to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.
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A prominent Burma expert told a United States senate foreign relations committee yesterday an international coalition was needed to promote democratic change in Burma.
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