Kuala Lumpur: Support for Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has faded and her release from house arrest is unlikely to pose a threat to political stability, the military-ruled country’s police chief said Tuesday.
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As soon as Sayc Pler Paw saw her brother’s body, she knew that everyone in her village would have to abandon their homes and flee to the relative safety of the surrounding jungle-covered hills.
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The British government has been accused of failing the pro-democracy movement in Burma after fresh evidence emerged of the ruling junta’s crackdown on the National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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May 22, Township educational authorities in Rangoon on Wednesday issued an edict ordering the closure of private tuition classes and boarding houses, causing untold difficulties and miseries to the pupils and their parents.
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A report released today by the Karen Women Organization says that up to 70 per cent of Karen fleeing the latest assaults by the Burmese army are women and children.
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Geneva: About 2,000 people from Myanmar have fled to Thailand after an upsurge of fighting in their homeland, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s military rulers announced Tuesday a 10-fold hike in electricity prices, on the back of sky-rocketing inflation sparked by last month’s huge wage increase for civil servants.
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May” One of Burma’s wealthiest and most powerful business tycoons, Tay Za, has enjoyed a cosy relationship with the country’s top leaders, including Snr-Gen Than Shwe and Gen Thura Shwe Mann. He is also known to be romantically involved with one of the head general’s daughters, Khin Pyone Shwe, also called Pyone Pyone Shwe.
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United Nations: The United States on Monday asked a top U.N. official to brief the Security Council on his visit to Myanmar and his meeting with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to focus scrutiny on the military junta’s poor rights record.
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London: Myanmar’s human rights record, which includes abuse of ethnic minorities and political prisoners, remains one of the world’s worst, Amnesty International said in its annual report Tuesday.
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Bangkok: A top U.S. diplomat said Tuesday that Washington is ready to improve relations with Myanmar if the ruling military junta makes a move toward the release of political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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To anyone who despairs of the outside world’s chances of doing anything about the suppression of democracy in countries such as Burma, it is worth pointing out that the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would never have been allowed to speak to any foreigner if it was not for the threat of UN action. (more…)

Yangon: My country is an aborted democracy. It is governed by an interim military regime, which refuses to honor the results of the election held in 1990, when the Burmese chose democracy, transparency and change. Now the regime accuses the struggling democratic opposition in Myanmar, as it has chosen to call the country, of having contact with terrorists.
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