Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Military-ruled Myanmar said Wednesday a UN resolution against the junta would “destroy the peace” and accused the Security Council of trying to interfere in its domestic affairs.
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The Burmese government’s closure of five International Committee of the Red Cross field offices, which effectively halts most of its work in the country, continues to draw criticism, the latest from the UK and US.
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Nay Pyi Taw: The Myanmar government denied on Wednesday that it has closed down field offices of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in five areas of the country, but saying that it was just a temporary suspension.
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Burmese authorities have banned a VCD depicting a traditional anyein performance on the grounds that some of the content is critical of the military government.
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The 91st birthday of Burma’s most prominent woman literary personality, Ludu Daw Amar was celebrated today at the home of her daughter, west of Mandalay city to avoid the prying eyes of the military regime.
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November 27: Reports of rape cases involving underage girls have increased in the past few months in both Rangoon and Magwe divisions in Burma.
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November 27: The high court in Rangoon has dismissed appeals lodged on behalf of two men sentenced to 26 years imprisonment for writing and distributing a politically sensitive poem.
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More than 60 Burmese Customs Department officials have been arrested in countrywide raids and a similar number have gone into hiding, according to border sources.
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Nay Pyi Taw: The Myanmar anti-drug authorities seized a large amount of narcotic drugs worth of a street value of 5.71 billion U.S. dollars between April 2004 and October 2006, Police Chief Brigadier-General Khin Yi told a press conference here Wednesday.
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November 28: An overtly optimistic New Delhi is of the view that out of the three gas pipeline projects India is eyeing to meet its soaring energy needs, the one from Burma will come to fruition first.
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The UN Security Council has repeated its call for action against the recruitment of child soldiers in countries considered the worst offenders, including Burma.
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The Burmese government should release political prisoners, particularly democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, open up the political process, and take “concrete steps” to address other areas of global concern, a top United Nations political officer said on Tuesday after a meeting with the Security Council.
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Thailand must not do anything to harm the growing international resolve against the Burmese junta
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During the 1970s and 1980s, Latin America endured the scourge of dictatorship and yet US policy makers were slow to acknowledge the tragedy unfolding before their eyes because Washington was locked in a Cold War showdown with the USSR.
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