Burma’s prominent pro-democracy activists were threatened with “punitive punishment” if they continue political activities, an article in a state-run newspaper reported Monday.
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More than 20 Burmese women activists were driven out of a Rangoon pagoda today and were stopped from conducting a prayer vigil for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the pagoda management.
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The Henzada township court has accepted a law suit filed by human rights activist Ko Myint Naing against six men alleged to have bashed him outside Oak Pon village.
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Rangoon University students today sent a letter of appeal to the heads of Burma ‘s ruling military junta demanding that it immediately find a missing fellow student arrested in May for conducting prayers at a pagoda in Rangoon.
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A hall owned by the Muslim Former Students’ Religious Association on the corner of Sule pagoda road and Anawrahta roadin Rangoon has reportedly been seized by retired military major Kyaw Min and his wife.
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A government-backed militia in northern Shan State confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of farmland earlier this year from villagers in Muse Township and has begun clearing the land in preparation for the planting of physic nut trees, according to residents in the Burma-China border town.
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Over 2,000 Indians, residing on the Indo-Burmese border town of Moreh, fled to Burma today to take refuge after tension broke out in the town, following fresh clashes between Manipuris and ethnic Kuki rebels.
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Two people were reportedly killed on Saturday when several shells landed near the Burma border town of Myawaddy during a clash between the Karen National Union and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army.
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The number of malaria patients has sharply increased this month among communities of Burmese refugees and migrants o­n the Thailand-Burma border, said a senior medical worker in Mae Sot, Thailand.
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Mae sot, Thailand  – Aid workers have discovered the first cases of “extensively drug resistant” TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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Myanmar imported pharmaceutical products valued at 100 million U.S. dollars in 2006-07 which ended in March, an increase by 25 percent from 2005-06 when it was 80 million dollars, a local media reported Monday.
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Myanmar stands an opportunity to re- get the Global Fund aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria after it was stopped nearly two years ago, a local media quoted the remarks of United Nations health officials as saying Monday.
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Western sanctions to force democracy on military-ruled Burma are pointless because the country will survive as long as it is supported by giant neighbors China and India, a senior Southeast Asian official said Monday.
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New Delhi has taken a serious view of poachers from Burma increasingly preying on the fragile marine ecology of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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June 8, Bangkok, Thailand — Russia has put a price tag of half a billion dollars on plans to build a nuclear “research” center in Burma, one of the world’s poorest countries, where electricity is a luxury for most inhabitants. (more…)

A star of the popular American TV show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” urged the world Monday to turn its attention to the suffering of people in military-ruled Myanmar.
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A top level delegation from the Ethnic Nationalities Council (Union of Burma) has met members of US assemblies including Senate Edward Kennedy and congressman Tom Lantos of the Democratic Party.
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June 1, United Nations – In connection with the last minute, Friday afternoon document-dumping of the limited audit of its operations in North Korea, the UN Development Program offered a rare media availability. (more…)