June 11: Yangon: Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was feeling better Sunday after suffering from stomach troubles and remained at home under the care of her personal physician, her party said.
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June 11: Bangkok: Attacks last week by Myanmar’s army displaced more than 4,000 members of the country’s Karen minority, bringing the number of homeless since the end of February to more than 18,000, a refugee relief organization said Sunday.
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Yangon: Myanmar is planning some tourism festivals to attract more tourists worldwide to the country with assurance of taking security of the visitors, the local weekly Voice reported Monday.
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June 2006: Censors fail to gag popular Burmese comedian
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June 6: The official hand over ceremony of the project “Empowering of Women and Youth on the Border of Thailand – Myanmar,” coordinated by the Planned Parenthood Association of Thailand (PPAT) through the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), will take place on June 5, 2006 at the office of PPAT in Bangkok. Mr. Yoshinobu Hiraishi, The Deputy Chief of Mission of the Japanese Embassy, attended the ceremony.
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June 10: Yangon: China has signed an agreement to provide Myanmar with a special low-interest loan, state-run newspapers reported Saturday.
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Speakers at a discussion on Burma in Dhaka on Saturday urged the Bangladesh government to call for the immediate release of detained National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Beijing: China’s sales of military vehicles and weapons to Sudan, Nepal and Myanmar have aggravated conflicts and abetted violence and repressive rule in those countries, Amnesty International said in a report Monday.
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Washington: A Burmese woman who was denied asylum in the United States because she had offered material support to an armed group that opposes the authoritarian government in her country won the right to stay here temporarily after a panel of immigration appeals judges ruled last week that she faced the likelihood of torture in Burma.
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June 10: People around the world will stand up for Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners this month, says Rena Pederson. Will the United Nations?
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Asean leaders were relieved when the Burmese regime in Pyinmana recently informed them officially that the country would skip its turn to host the 2008 ministerial meeting after the Philippines next year. Singapore was next in line and has already agreed to host the event.
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