The Burmese military government has claimed that more than 40 members of the National League for Democracy have recently resigned from the party, according to reports in the state-run media.
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With no let up on pressure from the military regime in Burma the people of Chin state now have to pay for the training of government employees in accordance with a directive from the higher authorities.
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Yangon: The population of Myanmar hit 55.4 million as of January this year, an increase of 1.1 million from 2005, according to Tuesday’s Voice journal.
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Bangkok: Hundreds of Karen refugees were poised to enter Thailand, joining others who have fled an ongoing offensive against the ethnic minority by Myanmar’s army, a Thai official said Tuesday.
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Thousands of ethnic Karen have been forcibly relocated and women have been raped by Burmese troops during military attacks in Karen State, the Thai-based Karen Women’s Organisation said today.
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Unofficial Shan refugees, living along the border of Thailand and the Shan township of Mongton, held their first ordination on Sunday, April 30, for forty boys.  Many of them are orphans and all have no official status in Thailand, precluding travel outside the village.
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Burma’s Department of Medical Research said in a new report that the bacteria responsible for the hepatitis virus, dysentery and diarrhea had been found in food sold in Rangoon.
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Thailand will host a Southeast Asian international conference on avian influenza early next month to cooperate with neighbouring countries in containing the disease and in demonstrating its readiness to be the key regional training centre for those working against the virus.
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May 1: It is often said that President Bush, learning from the failed unilateralism of his first-term foreign policy, has adopted a more multilateral approach in the second. (more…)