More than 530,000 people have signed a petition calling for the release of political prisoners in Myanmar, organisers said as the campaign came to a close Monday.
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October 22: The condition of Rangoon Kyauktan Township National League for Democracy (NLD) elected representative Dr. Than Nyein who is being detained at Prome (Pyay) Jail, is said to be dire as he is not allowed to receive medical treatments, according to his wife Khin Aye.
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October 20: It has been three weeks since five 88 Generation Student leaders were taken away by the Burmese authorities and held incommunicado with the excuse of holding discussions with them and that it was time they’re released, Burmese student leaders and legal experts insisted.
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Myanmar’s military leaders including junta head Than Shwe met with Chinese army chief of staff General Liang Guanglie in the new administrative capital Nay Pyi Taw, state media said Monday.
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October 21: A constitution-writing process that has been dismissed as a sham is seen by many as being better than nothing
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The Ethnic Youth Network Group (EYNG), a Thailand based network of Burmese ethnic youth groups, criticized the junta’s annual Burmese cultural competition program for a lack of minority ethnic cultural traditions, in an open letter to the junta on October 19.
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A first-ever South Korean film festival will be launched here in the second week of November to introduce South Korean feature films to the Myanmar audiences, according to sources with the South Korean Embassy here.
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October 22: Thai New Prime Minster Surayud Chulanont said he will look after Mon people after the Abbot Rev. Uttama passed away. He is one of the Abbot’s follower and believes in the abbot when he was during in military barrack.
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October 22: Myanmar’s total foreign trade is expected to reach US$7 billion (euro5.6 billion) in the current 2006-2007 fiscal year, an increase of about 27 percent compared to the previous year, state-run media said Sunday.
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Many Thais are concerned about restoration of democracy in Burma and to link it with democratic activities internationally.
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Disparate workers organizations in Thailand have decided to establish a strong workers’ union to protect the rights of workers. This was decided at the “Convention of Global Solidarity”.
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October 21: Myanmar’s military government refuses to investigate widespread human rights abuses including summary executions, torture and forced labor, the U.N. special investigator for human rights in the country said in a report circulated Friday.
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October 21: The Norwegian and French governments on Friday denounced Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) over the untimely death of 34-year-old pro-democracy activist Thet Win Aung at Mandalay Jail on 16 October.
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People of Burma were shocked by the sudden death of a 34-year old student leader Thet Wing Aung in Mandalay prison. He had played an active role in the 1988 anti-military demonstrations. Arrested in 1998, Thet Win was ‘awarded’ a 59-year jail term. As his health deteriorated in recent months appeals went out from all over the world from the United Nations to the Amnesty International and human rights groups to junta to spare the life of this promising young man.
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