September 4: Sai Leun, the warlord of eastern Shan State in Burma’s Golden Triangle, has found a profitable substitute for the opium poppy crop that used to sustain his 5,000-square-kilometer principality. He fleeces Chinese gamblers. And since April he has been doing it online.
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The Southeast Commander has changed the dress code of students of the University of Moulmein (Mawlamyine) and tutors. All Mon students have been barred from wearing traditional Mon costumes and clothes on Monday, said a university student.
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September 4: Yangon: Myanmar’s leading astrologers say they still consider Pluto a planet, despite what scientists elsewhere in the world have decided, a newsweekly said Monday.
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September 3: Yangon: Myanmar’s military government said Saturday it would resume a convention to draft the country’s new constitution next month, according to state-run media.
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Yangon: Myanmar will partly retain border  trade system in the light of the establishment of the country’s  second border trade zone of Myawaddy in the process of  transformation of its border trade system at all trade points into normal one, the local weekly Voice reported in its latest issue.
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September 4: A recent report that the Thai government has inked a timber deal with Burma has left many Thai businesspeople wondering how the agreement will benefit the country.
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September 4: Yangon: Myanmar is planning to set up a securities and exchange commission to help develop a bond market in the country, the weekly Myanmar Times reported Monday.
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September 4: Singapore: Myanmar is a “very difficult practical problem” but isolating the military-ruled country would not lead to democracy, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday.
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Burma looks poised once again to cast a shadow on the Asia-Europe Meeting, with Foreign Minister Nyan Win due to arrive in the Finnish capital Helsinki by the weekend for the two-day leader’s summit beginning next Monday.
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September 2: The United States moved yesterday to formally add Burma to the agenda of the U.N. Security Council, potentially exposing the Southeast Asian nation, which is ruled by a military junta, to international condemnation for human rights violations and other abuses.
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September 4: If the current diplomatic effort, spearheaded by the United States, to add the situation in Burma to the council’s agenda comes to fruition in the near future, Burma will be isolated and forced to fight alone.
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