Yangon: Aung San Suu Kyi’s surprise meeting with a UN envoy has lifted hopes among her supporters that Myanmar’s military rulers may soon release her from house arrest, but analysts are far more cautious.
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Yangon: Internet users in Myanmar were experiencing a third day without web access Thursday after the military-ruled country’s already tenuous links to the online world were cut, service providers said.
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Burma’s ethnic Karen had high hopes in 2004 that a gentleman’s ceasefire agreement with the country’s military regime would bring peace, but two years on those hopes have been dashed.
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Two non-government groups working with Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand have declined a US $6.12 million package offered by French oil giant Total.
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Kuala Lumpur: Seventeen Muslim refugees from Myanmar broke out of a Malaysian detention center for illegal immigrants after cutting through steel bars and a perimeter fence, a news report said Thursday.
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Bangkok: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived late Thursday in Thailand where he was due to hold talks with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and bestow an award on the nation’s revered king.
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United Nations: Dangling the release of Burma’s best-known freedom fighter, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rangoon’s military rulers hope to avert further outside help for victims of the deepening crisis in Burma, its opponents say.
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United Nations: Myanmar’s military junta appears ready to “turn a new page” and engage the international community after years of hostility, a top U.N. official said Wednesday.
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Geneva: Myanmar should “unconditionally” release detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi when her current sentence ends later this week, the U.N.’s human rights expert for the country said Thursday.
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The Fort Wayne Sentinel-a daily newspaper and online news service based in Indiana State in the US-is on Thursday launching a new Burma news section. (more…)

The regime again promises change, but will Aung San Suu Kyi be released?
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May 23: Three Burma campaign organizations today called for support for a letter by parliamentarians and legislators to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council seeking a binding, non-punitive resolution on the Southeast Asian country of Burma. (more…)

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, issued the following statement today (more…)