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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The National Council of the Union of Burma said today they had received proof the Burmese military were planning to assassinate National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Burma’s leading opposition party, the National League for Democracy has launched the first human rights and AIDS awareness training scheme at its headquarters in Rangoon.
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San Yi, the mother of murdered former political prisoner Thet Naing Oo, was not allowed to attend a ‘special’ tribunal after she was given a ‘special’ permission to attend a ‘special’ tribunal set up to investigate her son’s death.
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Nearly 400 Karen people fleeing military action by the Burmese army have arrived this week at the Salween river opposite northern Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province, according to the Free Burma Rangers. More than 5,000 other internally displaced people are still hiding in the jungle, said an FBR report.
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Forty Burmese Muslim families, comprising about 200 individuals, recently entered Bangladesh territory in five boats after crossing the Naff River on March 23, said a report in the Deshbidesh, a local Cox’s Bazaar newspaper.
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The Technical Assistant Institute, or TAI, a Non-Government Organization (NGO) of Bangladesh has replaced CONCERN NGO of Bangladesh in the Burmese refugee camps, according to our correspondent.
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Shares in the Gas Authority of India Limited rose to Rs 304.90 today after the company announced it received bids from eight firms for the transportation of natural gas from its production block in Burma.
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In what could be the world’s first shipping time-charter service for compressed natural gas, eight Indian and international firms and consortia have responded to the invitation of gas purveyor Gail India for expressions of interest to transport CNG from the A-1 block in Myanmar.
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A new appraisal of Burma’s healthcare system released today says the country is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis with the potential to wreak increasing damage on the health of people both inside and outside the country.
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The junta’s dysfunctional diplomacy is demonstrated once again after Malaysia’s envoy cuts short his visit
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