Yangon: Myanmar’s ruling military junta accused exiled anti-government groups of meeting in Thailand last week to plan terrorist acts in Myanmar, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday.
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Yangon: The Myanmar armed forces will not to recruit minors for military service, an official newspaper quoted a Myanmar leader as saying Wednesday.
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Accusations that Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy was little more than a puppet for Western governments-made in the state-run press-have been dismissed as groundless by NLD officials.
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Some 8,000 Karen refugees currently living in Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand’s Ratchaburi province will be moved to a new location closer to the Thai-Burmese border in Kanchanaburi and Saraburi provinces.

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The Burmese military government is forcing thousands of convicts to work as porters for the army in Pegu Division and northern Karen State, according to a report by the Karen Human Rights Group.
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Kuala Lumpur: The United States trade chief said Wednesday that a trade pact to be signed with ASEAN nations this week is a great boost to economic relations but urged the bloc to do more to push Myanmar toward democracy.
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Bangkok: Governments both East and West are often critical of Myanmar’s human rights abuses, but the country’s energy production is rising, and nations are quietly doing lucrative business with its junta leaders.
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Jakarta: ASEAN has told military-ruled Myanmar it will have to defend itself alone if it is taken to the UN Security Council, Indonesia’s foreign minister said Wednesday.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh: The High Court yesterday ordered the release of an octogenarian Burmese citizen who has been languishing in Cox’s Bazaar jail for the last 12 years. He was sentenced to only two years in jail.
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Australia will accept 150 refugees from Karenni refugee camp (2), on the Thai-Burma border, for resettlement, according to a source from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in Thailand.
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