A final special appeal against the detention of eight Shan leaders will be submitted to the Rangoon Central Court on March 1, according to lawyer U Aung Thein. (more…)

Recent weeks have seen the army transfer an abnormally large number of officers to civilian postings. Questions abound as to the significance, if any, of this spate of transfers.
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Chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Senior-General Than Shwe met with visiting Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw Monday.
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Dear listeners. DVB [Democratic Voice of Burma] has received news that all police manning the security kiosks at township police stations in Rangoon Division have been withdrawn since 24 February and preparations are underway to replace them with Kyantphut [vernacular acronym for pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association] members, it has been learned.
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Yangon: By the standards of the late dictator Ne Win, who decreed on the advice of an astrologer in 1970 that all traffic should switch to the right side of the road, it is not such a daft plan.
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Victims of lead poisoning from a polluted creek near a Karen village in Kanchanaburi Province on the Thai-Burmese border continue to suffer diseases, and Thai authorities are ignoring the problem, environmental activists say.
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The Japanese government will help Myanmar fight malaria in the country’s Bago division under its grassroot grant assistance scheme, an official press media reported Sunday.
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The Myanmar anti-drug authorities exposed a total of 229 narcotic-drug-related cases in January this year, punishing 331 people including 54 women, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday.
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Myanmar’s foreign minister, Major-General Nyan Win, recently paid a two-day visit to Indonesia on a mission of strengthening relations between the two countries. General Nyan Win must have impressed his Indonesian counterpart, Hassan Wirayuda, because Dr Wirayuda told reporters he was confident that Myanmar’s new constitution would be completed this year.
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February 23, 2007: The Sixth Strategic Consultation Meeting of the revolutionary forces was held successfully from February 21 to 23, 2007 at a certain place in the liberated area. (more…)

Myanmar’s state-run media warned on Friday that a rare demonstration a day earlier had broken the law, and could bring a crackdown against those who took to the streets demanding lower prices and better education.
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Three reporters arrested yesterday by the police in Rangoon were released after about five hours in detention.
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Yangon: A normally bustling Yangon market was eerily quiet Friday — a day after a group of protesters held a rare demonstration there against Myanmar’s military-run government over economic hardships.
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An 88 generation student leader in Rangoon today lambasted the junta for accusing peaceful demonstrators yesterday, of instigating unrest and riots with a populist motive and to receive rewards from abroad.
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The military authorities are still detaining eight people who had organised a pubic literacy seminar in Paungtalei town without framing charges for over two weeks now.
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The Burmese military government has stepped up its military assault on Karen communities in eastern Burma, according to latest reports by the Free Burma Rangers.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has upgraded its food assistance that began in 2004 to former poppy farmers in Shan State from emergency operations to protracted relief and recovery operations beginning 2007, according to a copy of its project proposal with S.H.A.N.
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Naypyidaw: Myanmar’s generals call their new administrative capital “the abode of kings” and in keeping with the name the year-old town of Naypyidaw offers many luxuries that are unimaginable elsewhere in the country.
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Forces from Myanmar have captured a rebel base run by the Indian separatist group, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K).
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India is Burma’s second-largest export market and ranks seventh as a source of imports into Burma. This added up to $577 million in the financial year 2004-2005, but the Indian Chamber of Commerce has set a target of almost double that figure to $1 billion for the current 2006-2007 year.
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