Burma’s military government has accused organizers of the 88 Generation Students group of tricking people into signing petitions during a recent campaign to free five of their detained leaders.
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The officials of Burma military junta-sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) at Chauk Township in Magwe Division have been misappropriating money and abusing power, according to local residents.
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Tachilek’s district post and telegraph chief is facing a tough grilling following reports that he has been depositing more than 60 million kyat ($46,000) in his bank account, according to an informed source in Maesai, Tachilek’s twin city on the Thai side.
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The Thailand-based Paluang Womens Organization, or PWO, condemned the violent sexual attacks committed by Burmese army troops against three Palaung women in a village of southern Shan State in Burma on 9 October, in a statement issued on 25 October, 2006. (more…)

Burmese military authorities have reopened the Indo- Burma border road linking Paletwa town in Chin state Burma to Mizoram state in India. The road was closed for over two weeks.
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Burmese troops have reportedly blocked routes into two gold mining areas of Kachin State, disrupting major sources of revenue for the Kachin Independence Organization.
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October 16-22, The United Nations Population Fund in Myanmar said it was satisfied with the results of a health education film sponsored by the organisation currently being shown in Yangon’s cinemas.
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Myanmar’s prime minister will attend a summit in Nanning, China next week commemorating relations between China and Southeast Asian countries, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.
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The Lady of Burma, a new play about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be staged at the Old Vic Theatre, London on 12 November.
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The Government should close a loophole that allows companies to use Britain to invest in Burma via British-dependent territories, a Welsh MP said yesterday.
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Last month the U.N. Security Council formally discussed the situation in Burma for the first time. For Burmese people such as us, who live under the country’s oppressive regime, this was a welcome development.
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The Security Council must act further on the human rights situation of a country where violence and repression from the military are an everyday fact of life.
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Recent incidents of sexual violence by the Burmese military regime’s troops  in western, eastern and central Burma have lent urgency to demands for an  immediate end to war crimes in Burma made by the Women’s League of Burma in  a position paper released today at the United Nations in New York.
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