Naypyidaw: Inflation in impoverished Myanmar has quadrupled in the past year, but GDP growth exceeded expectations, reaching 13.2 percent last fiscal year, an economic minister said. (more…)

December 16: New Delhi: India will invest 4.5 billion rupees (100 million U.S. dollars) in developing Myanmar’s Sittwe port to connect northeast India with East Asia, a senior Indian official said Saturday. (more…)

December 16: The Parliament in Nepal has demanded the immediate release of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

Ban Nam Khem: On the eve of the second anniversary of the tsunami, Thailand buried the last of its unidentified victims in a quiet ceremony attended by a handful of officials. (more…)

The UK’s Department of International Development was accused on Monday of failing to help some of the most vulnerable people in Burma and of neglecting to support democracy in the country. (more…)

December 16: Bangkok: Hollywood and music stars, including Tim Robbins and Kate Pierson of The B-52s, have called on the United Nations to pass its first-ever resolution on Myanmar where a brutal offensive against ethnic minority people is continuing, a press release received Saturday said. (more…)

December 16: Green campaigners in Stroud are urging residents to support an unusual campaign. (more…)

Burma’s junta needs to hear from the U.N. Security Council.
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London tonight: Friends of the Earth and Canadian Friends of Burma to press concerns at CPP Investment Board public meeting

(London, Ontario):  Friends of the Earth-Canada and Canadian Friends of Burma will challenge the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) use of pension fund monies to finance the government of Burma (also known as Myanmar), reputed to be the most vicious and repressive dictatorship in the world. (more…)

The families of five ’88 generation student leaders taken into police custody almost three months ago have again pleaded for their release.
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Karen state, Myanmar: First they killed his neighbours, shooting them as they were gathering the rice harvest. Then they set fire to Saw Tah Wah’s village. Finally the Myanmese Army soldiers planted landmines around the burned homes to maim anybody daring to return.
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People selected by the military regime to be the chairmen and secretary of Village Peace and Development Council have been trained in methods on how to organize the people and approach the State Peace and Development Council in what will be a military controlled democracy, said a trainee.
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YANGON: The MRTV-4, a paid channel jointly implemented by the Myanmar Radio and Television Department (MRTV) and the private-run Forever Group, started free-to-air telecast  Friday covering Yangon and its nearby areas.
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Yangon: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka will pay a working visit to Myanmar in the near future, an official announcement said here Friday without giving  the date of the visit.
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Bangkok: A total of 120 migrant workers from Myanmar were found hidden inside two trucks as they were being smuggled from the border to Thailand’s capital, police said Friday.
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Nick Meo travels to the Thai-Myanmese border to meet the ethnic Shan soldiers fighting Yangon for independence
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South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon took the oath of office as the next secretary-general of the UN, promising to restore the world body’s tarnished reputation and push for peace in the Middle East and conflict-wracked Darfur.
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December 13: New York: The military junta that ran Argentina during the late 1970s and early 1980s thought nothing of keeping its naval officers in close proximity to the thousands of dissidents tortured and executed for opposing the regime.
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Clashes between Burmese army troops and armed ethnic groups are increasing in many areas, forcing thousands of civilians to flee and raising fears of a sustained dry-season offensive by the Tatmadaw, the Burmese armed forces. (more…)

Yangon: Myanmar’s military junta has told Red Cross officials that the humanitarian group can reopen its field offices that the government had ordered shut in October, the aid agency said Thursday. (more…)