The Burmese government’s ongoing militarization and developmental projects in eastern Pegu Division are causing widespread human rights abuses and environmental damage, according to a recent EarthRights International report.
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February 19: A long list of regulations issued to Internet café owners in Burma is making it more difficult than ever for them to operate.
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Loi Tai Leng, Burma: He predicts that in three years they will take back control of more than half of the 160,000 square kilometres they want recognised as an independent Shan State.
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A court in central Myanmar has meted out life imprisonment to 33 people from a human trafficking ring for luring young women to China for forced marriage arrangements, state-run media said Monday.
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February 17: Military-run Myanmar has extended its New Year holidays in April, one of the most important festivals for the mainly Buddhist nation, state media said Saturday.
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Several villages in Gangaw township, Magwe Division are being forcibly relocated by the Burmese military to make way for the Pyintha dam project, residents told DVB.
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Supporters of Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have accused a pro-regime mob of having planed to attack them at the Shwe Da Gone pagoda this morning.
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February 18: Southwest China’s Yunnan Province had helped neighboring countries plant nearly one million mu (66,667 hectares) of cash-bearing crops as substitutes for opium poppy by the end of 2006, local Chinese authorities have said.
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Indo-Burmese border trade is likely to be conducted in ‘Euro,’ the currency of the European Union. The idea was mooted at a conference on ‘India-Myanmar Trade & Commerce: Challenges & Prospects,’ on February 15 in Kolkata.
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Bangkok: China’s warming relationship with the Southeast Asian military regime the West loves to hate is emerging as a vital element in solving one of Beijing’s biggest problems — energy security. The jungles of Burma now seem certain to provide a shortcut for oil from the Middle East and Africa to the Chinese border.
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February 19: The Southeast Asia Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, a network of human rights and child focused NGO’s, said the Burmese junta should open up its claimed process of halting the use of child soldiers.
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February 19: A group of Burmese asylum seekers detained on Nauru for several months face spending years on the tiny, sweltering island after rejecting an offer to return voluntarily to an uncertain future in Malaysia, reports The Age.
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February 19: The decision by the Burmese military junta last week to extend the house arrest of senior democratic opposition leader Tin Oo by a year has been received here with condemnation at the United Nations and among human rights groups.
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February 19: The increase in military relationship between India and Burma in recent years does not seem to have gone down well with the Bush Administration, which would like to see India encourage more human rights reforms.
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A international coalition of environmental and human rights organizations, led by two NGOs in Thailand, the Coordinating Committee on Rural Development and the Salween Watch, will launch a worldwide campaign against the construction of hydro-power dams on the Salween River in Burma next week.
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How would the current South African government have voted had it been one of the 11 members of the U.N. Security Council debating Resolution 191 in June 1964?
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