Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said Monday he failed to get any response from Myanmar’s junta leaders when he renewed regional demands for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a rapid shift to democracy.
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11 politcal and social activists who were arrested early yesterday morning while making preparations for a religious ceremony for AIDS victims at Maggin Monastery in Rangoon Thinganggyun Township, were released at 2pm local time today, according to their relatives.
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August 13: Burmese authorities raided Maggin Buddhist Monastery in Rangoon Thingaggyun Township where AIDS suffers who were preparing to hold a robe offering ceremony today at 8am local time, and arrested 11 leading organisers.
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Military-ruled Myanmar plans to build a replica of Yangon’s world famous Shwedagon pagoda in the newly-built administrative capital of Nay Pyi Taw, a local journal reported Monday.
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August 13: The level of Attaran River in southern Burma’s Mon State near Thailand has risen to the critical mark at Kyaikmraw, due to unusually heavy late monsoon rains.
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Trade between India and Burma remained suspended for the third day today as residents of India’s Moreh Town of Manipur, bordering Burma, called for an indefinite band following the kidnapping and killing of a student leader by suspected militants.
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August 13: A severe dengue fever outbreak affecting mostly children at Shwebo Township, Sagaing Division in central Burma, is prompting the township health department to carry out a non-stop health campaign, according to local residents.
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Myanmar, the world’s second-largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, burned drugs said to be worth 436 million dollars on Monday, an information ministry official said.
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Military-ruled Myanmar has agreed to increase gas production to supply energy-hungry neighboring Thailand, the Myanmar Times newspaper reported Monday.
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Trade between India and Burma remained suspended for the third day today as residents of India’s Moreh Town of Manipur, bordering Burma, called for an indefinite bandh following the kidnapping and killing of a student leader by suspected militants.
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August 13: Arakanese communities in exile observed the 39th Memorial Day anniversary of the ‘rice killing day’ at various locations around the world including Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Thailand, on August 13, 2006.
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August 12: Human trafficking in Burma is the fall out of an under developed economy and political impasse, according to a conference yesterday in Chaing Mai, by Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE), Thailand.
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