Exhibitors at Britain’s biggest garden show, the Chelsea Flower Show, are selling hardwood from the unprotected rainforests of Asia in trade that has been condemned by one of the country’s leading environmental bodies.
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Bangkok: Renewed UN pressure could prompt Myanmar’s military rulers to loosen restrictions on democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, an analyst said Sunday, despite their one-year extension of her house arrest.
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Bangkok: Burma’s military rulers have extended the detention of Nobel Peace prize-winning democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking renewed calls for the United Nations Security Council to tackle Burma’s prolonged political crisis.
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Vienna: The European Union said Tuesday it “deplores” Myanmar’s decision to ignore appeals from around the world and extend the house arrest of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Oslo: Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Tuesday expressed “great regret” over recent reports that the military rulers of Myanmar had extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called for her release.
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Tokyo: Japan on Monday called on Myanmar to release democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after her detention was extended by the country’s junta.
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Paris: France on Monday condemned Myanmar’s extension of house arrest for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, calling it “bad news for the Burmese people.”
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Aung San Suu Kyi knows where she will be spending her 61st birthday next month.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was due to be freed from house arrest two days ago. But despite a personal appeal from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and a personal visit from Annan’s deputy, Burmese strongman Than Shwe instead extended her term of confinement.
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The visit paid to her by Ibrahim Gambari, the UN under-secretary general for political affairs, and his optimism brought the fate of the Nobel laureate to the fore once again. Unfortunately, hopes for her release were dashed when the junta announced on Saturday that she would be kept under house arrest for another year.
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Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning democracy advocate, were deeply disappointed this weekend when Burma’s military rulers extended the house arrest of the world’s most famous political prisoner.
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New York: The Secretary-General was deeply disappointed to learn that the Myanmar authorities have extended the detention under house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD). (more…)

Hopes ran high among supporters of detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi that she would be released when her house arrest order expires Saturday, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to the ruling junta’s chief “to do the right thing.”
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Sources in Rangoon say that more than two dozen people-journalists, city residents, opposition party National League for Democracy members, even Chinese and American diplomats-have gathered near detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside home at 54 University Avenue Road.
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Uniformed Myanmar police Friday removed barbed wire barriers from around Aung San Suu Kyi’s home and cleared spikes from the front of her gated driveway, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
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May 25: Revered Burmese monks called on Burma’s ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) to cooperate in order to solve the ongoing political problems and for the benefits of the people of Burma.
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The secretive Research Department under Burma’s Ministry of Science and Technology has been moved to Kyaukse, Mandalay division as a result of security concerns, official sources told Mizzima.
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The Burmese military government has begun to systematically attack the Karen National Liberation Army, according to the Karen National Union General Secretary Mahn Sha.
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Malaysia on Friday urged the military junta of Myanmar to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi when her detention expires, saying she poses no threat to the country’s stability.
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South Korea’s two national flag carriers are breaking into the Indochina market, launching regular and charter flights to new destinations there this month.
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Bangkok: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday called on Burma’s military rulers to “do the right thing” and release detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, affirming she had a role to play in the process of political reconciliation.
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