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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Reports have emerged, following Burma’s quarterly military meeting in Naypyidaw, suggesting that the country’s top military leaders have stepped down from their military positions.
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Yangon: A Myanmar military sources denied Friday night that there has been high-level shake-up in the military, saying that the was no change with the military posts of the present state leaders.
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September 20: Witnesses of the manslaughter case against Rangoon Shwe Pyithar Township National League for Democracy (NLD) member Myint Tun refused to tell the truth at the court today, according to Myint Tun lawyer Myint Thaung.
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September 23: Thailand wonders what to do with the millions who have fled there
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Closing the border with Burma is easier than reopening it, according to a 26-year old resident of Tachilek, following the abrupt shut down imposed by the Thai military which took over the reins of the country on Tuesday, September 19.
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Burma’s neighbor, Bangladesh, will participate in a five-nation trade exhibition in Burma that will run from December 21 to 23, said a report of a Burmese weekly journal in this week’s issue.
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Thailand’s coup leaders on Friday pursued their search for a civilian to take over as interim prime minister and consolidated their control, while the rest of the country eased back to business-as-usual.
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Global action to protest the Thai government’s construction of dams on Salween River in Burma was put on hold by campaigners and activists today, given the restrictions imposed by Thailand’s new military rulers.
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The Burmese military junta’s second most powerful man, General Maung Aye will visit Thailand soon, according to a reliable source.
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, an organ of the Human Rights Council, will address Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention during its next session in December, sources close to the case say.
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India and Burma have completely different political ideologies. The former is ruled by democracy while the latter by military. Since Indian attained her independence in 1947, there had been no major political crises except a State of Emergency declared during Indira Gandhi regime in 1975.
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Students at Myingyan Degree College in central Burma staged an impromptu demonstration on 15 September in protest of superfluous rules imposed on them by the authorities.
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