June 28: Burmese rights and environmental activists formed a working group today to coordinate campaigns against several dam projects in Burma.
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Burmese and Thai military officials concluded a three-day annual meeting on border issues on Thursday in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, describing the talks as “successful,” but declining to give further details.
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Switzerland on Thursday tightened sanctions on Burma by freezing assets held there by members of the ruling military elite. The Swiss action falls in line with similar European Union sanctions, which have been in force since May 2000.
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Confusion has spread among Rangoon businessmen over new export and import license application procedures.
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Teknaf, Bangladesh: Bangladesh-Burma border trade has generated over Taka.72 crore in revenue in 11 months in the fiscal year 2005-2006 (July to May) for the customs in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
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June 12-18: Medical specialists have warned that Myanmar needs to remain alert for bird flu and prepare for a rapid response in the event of another outbreak.
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June 28: The Thai government’s education department has allowed the inclusion of Mon literature and language in the curriculum of state schools where Mons live in Thailand, according to Nai Ork Pung, Mon history researcher, who is also involved in managing school programmes.
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Campaigners call for UN action on Burma.
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June 28: Washington, DC: Over thirty non-governmental organizations from twenty countries today sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the United Nations Security Council, calling for a peaceful, binding resolution on the Southeast Asian country of Burma. The letter adds to a growing chorus from the international community calling for action on Burma.
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June 27: Illegal gambling, theft, robbery and murder are on the rise around Burma during the football (soccer) World Cup season due to uncontrollable gambling epidemic, according to local residents.
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June 27: Kachin State National League for Democracy (NLD) in upper Burma, was barred from holding a regular meeting by the local authorities.
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June 27: Many people in Rangoon have been carrying with them small figurines of owl at all the time from the middle of this month with the belief that the spirit of the owl would give them protection and luck.
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Plans to set up nationality identification centers for Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are being stalled by disagreement between the Thai and Burmese governments on where they should be based.
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Regional military commanders from Burma and Thailand began a two day meeting in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Wednesday. The talks-the 23rd meeting of the Regional Border Committee-concentrate on border issues.
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Trade across the China-Burma border had come to a standstill yesterday as much of the business community went into hiding while a team of Burmese military investigators swept the border town of Muse.
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A Rangoon-based property and construction firm, Yoma Strategic Investments Pte. Ltd., plans to list on the Singapore stock exchange via a reverse takeover of  Sea View Hotel, the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times reported on Wednesday.
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Myanmar plans to sell a 49 percent stake in 11 factories as the government tries to raise much-needed cash, official media said Wednesday.
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New York/Kuala Lumpur: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that he had not received an appeal by lawmakers from 34 countries urging strong action against Burma’s ruling military junta, but he said the UN remains engaged in finding a solution.
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Fifty Canadian Members of Parliament call for United Nations Security Council action on Burma, by signing and adding their names on a letter addressing to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and 15 members of UN Security Council.
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Sadly, North Korea isn’t the only nation in East Asia where the population is persecuted and enslaved by the government, beset by disease and starvation, and cowed into submission by an egocentric leader. Today Burma is one of the world’s worst human rights offenders and is wracked by internal instability that threatens to spill over to its neighbors and beyond.
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