Yangon: Myanmar’s military junta arrested three pro-democracy activists Wednesday as the political party of detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi marked its 18th anniversary, activists said.
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The Mon cease-fire armed group, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has decided to join the military government’s National Convention as an observer yet again, at it’s the party’s Central Committee meeting.
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Many Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are declining to fill in new ID papers, or else are giving false information, because they fear the information might be used against them and their families by the Burmese regime.
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Pyay, Myanmar: In a steamy jungle clearing in Myanmar, a lone drilling rig topped by limp red flags bears testimony to China’s insatiable thirst for oil.
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More than 20 South Korean non-government organizations and trade unions, including Amnesty International South Korean Section, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, and Friends of Asia, have urged the Seoul government to investigate Daewoo International Corporation for allegedly sending armaments technology to Burma.
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United Nations: Myanmar says it poses no threat to regional peace and security and therefore should be removed from the U.N. Security Council’s agenda.
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Geneva: Myanmar’s persecution of political opponents is preventing any real transition to democracy, the United Nations’ special envoy for human rights in the country said Wednesday, a day after the military government criticized the United States for putting it on the U.N. Security Council’s agenda.
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September 26: Burma’s democracy leader, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was invited to speak at next week’s Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth, but remains ‘incommunicado’ under house arrest in Rangoon.
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Burma’s main opposition party the National League for Democracy has vowed to continue its struggle for democracy despite unabated repression by the military junta, according to an official.
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New Delhi: Myanmar authorities have arrested 15 Indians for crossing the India-Myanmar border illegally while on their way to Yangon, a media report said.
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Border trade has returned to normal at most of the Thai-Burmese border points but traders on the Maesot-Myawaddy border continue to be harassed since Burmese authorities have only partially reopened the border.
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Hanoi: The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday that Vietnam can play an important role in persuading North Korea and Myanmar to join the organization.
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Beijing: He Luli, vice-chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC), met here on Sept.25 with a delegation of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) of Myanmar.
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New York: The U.N. Security Council will discuss the situation in Myanmar on Friday, the first consultation since the council voted to put Myanmar on its agenda on Sept. 15, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told reporters Tuesday.
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Leaders of Burmese governments in exile held a meeting in the United States to discuss strategy.
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The appointment of Dr Yin Yin Nwe, daughter of Sao Saimong Mangrai, a scion of the princely Kengtung House, as Country Director for China has been approved by Beijing, according to her family circle in Rangoon.
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Marco Simons is the U.S. Legal Director for EarthRights International, which represented the plaintiffs in Doe v. Unocal Corp. and is currently representing villagers suing Chevron for human rights abuses in Nigeria.
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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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