Organizers of a planned May Day workshop at the American Center in Rangoon were arrested on Tuesday by local authorities.
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A Christian human rights organisation has claimed that the Burmese army has executed a relief worker there.
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The exodus continues unabated and Burmese migrant workers have been entering the kingdom of Thailand before the onset of the rainy season despite tighter control on the Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai-Burma border. And the migration has increased.
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Local Burmese authorities have question about 10 residents from Ye Nan Taung in Kyaukpyu Township in western Arakan State following a dispute over working conditions at a Chinese-run oil company, according to a human rights group. (more…)

Myanmar Energy New Myanmar well to produce 3.2 million cubic feet of natural gas Yangon.  A recently spudded well in Myanmar’s Ayeyawady division is expected to produce 3.2 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, media reports said Wednesday.
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[Report by Thet Khaing from "Local News" section: "Investment from China likely to rise: expert"] Myanmar can expect more investment from China and India to promote economic development in their respective border regions, a senior Bangladeshi academic predicted last week.
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Seven Bangladesh nationals and 48 Burmese Muslims were recently sentenced by the Maungdaw district court to five years in prison, three months after they first faced charges in the court, says a family member of one.
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US and European Union leaders agreed to step up pressure on Burma’s military junta during a one-day summit meeting in Washington on Monday.
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A Burmese democracy activist forced to live like a dog for six months wants tourists to boycott Burma because their dollars fund the military regime that jailed him.
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Burma remains rooted as one of the worst places in the world for press freedom, beaten only by newly embraced North Korea.

The 2007 annual survey, conducted by Freedom House, ranks 195 countries from around the world. The report concludes that global press freedom is on the decline and attributes this trend largely to the prevalence of coups, the suppression of political opposition groups and Internet regulation.
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The facts of history regarding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army (I.N.A.) struggling for the liberation of India had been kept in the dark by the British Raj in India, during World War II. But ultimately at the end of the war, the I.N.A. trials held at the Red Fort in Delhi brought to light the activities and the sacrifices of the I.N.A. and its Supreme Commander Netaji at the Burma front not only in India but also all over the world. The armed struggle by Netaji and his army had ended in a debacle but it brought about an amazing political success, as Netaji had envisaged, by arousing a revolutionary spirit and anti-British patriotic fervour causing a great stir all over the country. The I.N.A. led by Netaji with the help of Japan had its base in Burma (now Myanmar). It enjoyed the hospitality and cooperation of the Burmese people and the then government headed by Adhipati Dr. Ba Maw, and it could freely make the country a spring-board to attack the British Army from the Burma border for the liberation of India.
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