September 24: Myanmar’s secretive junta leader Than Shwe remains firmly entrenched as head of state of one of Asia’s poorest nation’s despite control of the armed forces shifting to his trusted protege.
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Burma’s military leaders are planning to change the make up of administrative bodies at state, division, district and township levels, says an official document obtained by The Irrawaddy-adding fuel to rumors of major changes in the junta leadership.
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September 24: Burma military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) media yesterday said recent reports by AFP and Channel News Asia news saying that the post of the commander-in-chief had been handed over to Gen Shwe Mann, was not true.
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Burmese ethnic ceasefire groups are under pressure from the military regime to oppose the recent decision of the UN Security Council to place Burma on its formal agenda.
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Rangoon: The pro-military National Unity Party (NUP) on Sunday warned Burma against copying alien cultures, norms and politics such as democracy, a senior party official said.
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September 22: For the thousands of villagers fleeing the repressive Myanmar regime, jungle life is fraught with hunger, disease and fear of the army finding them. Meanwhile, foreign intervention is elusive, writes Daniel Pepper.
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Several border crossings between Thailand and Burma have reopened following the sealing of the border after the military coup in Thailand last week.
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September 24: Military-ruled Burma achieved a surplus of 1.38 billion U.S. dollars in foreign trade in the first four months of the fiscal 2006-07, a figure which is up 77.8 percent from the country’s 776.1 million dollar surplus in the corresponding period of 2005-06.
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September 23: While India, China and Thailand have proposed to lay pipelines to their respective countries for trans-porting gas from the Shwe gas field in the Bay of Bengal, South Korea has proposed liquefying it and trans-porting it in the form of liquefied natural gas, industry sources said.
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September 24: Thailand’s coup will embolden the ruling generals in neighbouring Myanmar and weaken efforts to push for democratisation in the isolated pariah state, analysts and diplomats say.
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September 24: Washington, D.C.: America’s first lady Laura Bush, convening a roundtable discussion of experts to discuss what could be done to ensure the release of political prisoners, promote national reconciliation and restore democracy and highlight the repressive and destabilizing situation in Burma said on September 19 in New York that U.S. will work diligently with the U.N. Security Council to ensure that the crisis in Burma is not overlooked.
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