“It is not normally polite to refer to a woman’s age. However we would like today to remind you that a year has passed since the leader of the Burmese opposition, Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated her 60th birthday.”

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran is heading to Yangon on Saturday to kickstart an important trans-border infrastructure project that will let the land-locked North-Eastern states gain easy access to the Bay of Bengal through Myanmar.
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June 16, Daewoo International Corp said it has found gas reserves in an appraisal well at Block A-3 Mya field in Myanmar.
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Jakarta: Myanmar must receive a stern reprimand such as suspension from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for dragging its feet in instituting democracy and freeing dissidents, regional lawmakers said on Monday.
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s deputy prime minister said Southeast Asian countries must transform themselves to combat the rising economic influence of China and India in the region, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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June 17, Gwangju, South Korea: Nobel Peace Prize winners met this week in South Korea to discuss prospects for global peace. Two high-profile laureates were conspicuously absent – and their respective inability to attend was treated very differently by those who did make it to the meeting. (more…)

Thai authorities at Bangkok’s international airport prevented Chin pro-democracy protester Salai Tun Than from boarding a flight to Rangoon today, confirming that the Burmese government had cancelled his passport.
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New Delhi: Indian parliamentarians and pro-democracy activists planned to mark the 61st birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi at a ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.
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Manila: Philippine activists wearing chains and a giant cake replica trooped to the Myanmar Embassy on Monday to demand the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on her birthday, as she turned 61 under house arrest.
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Seoul: South Korean legislators on Monday [19 June] called for the immediate release of Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in Myanmar [Burma]. A bipartisan group of 68 South Korean lawmakers, including ruling Uri Party lawmaker Woo Won-shik and main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) Rep Ko Jin-hwa, signed a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, calling for her release. They also called for the release of all political prisoners.
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian and Myanmar activists on Sunday urged the international community to refer Myanmar to the UN Security Council as they celebrated the birthday of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Four hundred and thirty two eminent citizens of the country including leaders of political parties and socio-cultural, professional, and rights organisations, civil society leaders and editors of national dailies and weeklies yesterday demanded an end to the incarceration of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s democratic struggle.
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The 61st birthday of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was marked on Monday with demonstrations of solidarity in Rangoon and in more than 25 countries around the world, while calls for her release from house arrest came from many international figures, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Putrajaya: United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary- General Mark Malloch Brown said that there is a possibility that  Myanmar would be referred to the UN Security Council.
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London: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said (more…)

Bangkok: Human rights watchdog Amnesty International demanded military-run Myanmar free democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who celebrated her 61st birthday on Monday under house arrest.
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Geneva: The European Union told the new U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday that it should take inspiration from Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Islamabad: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have developed serious differences over the undetermined status of thousands of Burmese Muslims residing in the kingdom on Pakistani passports, as Riyadh is not ready to accept them as Saudi nationals in spite of an earlier commitment.
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Today marks the 61st birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy. It is the third consecutive birthday that she has spent under detention — and a stark reminder that not only she, but 50 million fellow Burmese are living without basic freedoms and human rights. Absent change, Burma is likely to continue a dangerous decline that threatens the welfare of its people and its neighbors alike. (more…)

It is not normally polite to refer to a woman’s age. However we would like today to remind you that a year has passed since the leader of the Burmese opposition, Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated her 60th birthday. It was another year of house arrest and almost complete isolation, another year of persecution for the Burmese opposition, another year of suppression of human rights, another year of repeated lies. (more…)