Yangon: The Myanmar police detained over 1, 500 jobless street wanderers in Yangon in August as part of its  bid to crack down on crime makers, the local Myanmar Times  reported Friday.
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Guwahati: Thousands of people marched Friday along the historic Stilwell Road to demand the reopening of the 1,079-mile (1,700 kilometres) route linking northeastern India to China via Myanmar, witnesses said.
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Ethnic conservationists and rights activists called on the Thai government and investors on Friday to withdraw their support for the construction of a dam on the Salween River in Shan State, claiming the work will disrupt the lives of people living in the area.
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More than 400 ethnic Burmese families living along Thailand’s border with Burma have urged local authorities to investigate irregularities in their identification documents.
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Arakanese urban refugees residing in Bangladesh refused to accept the vocational training and self-reliance programmes offered by the UNHCR Dhaka office during a meeting between the two groups at the RDF meeting hall in Cox’s Bazaar on September, 2006, said a refugee source.
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Yangon: Myanmar arrested 378 suspected drug dealers and seized nearly 100 kilograms of opium in August, state media reported Friday amid warnings from its neighbours over the flow of narcotics across its border.
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Cebu City: The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization (AIPO) yesterday formally changed its name into the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly or AIPA in preparation for its transformation into a body that will draft laws for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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United Nations: The United Nations Security Council formally put the situation of Myanmar on its agenda, following a vote that represented a victory for the United States and a defeat for China.
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Thais based in the United States will stage a three-day demonstraฌtion against caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra outside United Nations headquarters in New York, where he is to attend the UN General Assembly next week.
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September 14: Washington: First lady Laura Bush will have her own agenda when she and President George W. Bush leave on Monday for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.
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