While Burma’s prominent student leaders yesterday flatly rejected the Burmese military junta’s charge of manipulating university students to instigate riots, there is widespread speculation over the regime’s motive behind such an accusation.
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Myanmar’s military government has released four more activists who were detained last May after holding prayer vigils for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a spokesman for her party said Friday.
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It smacks of the worst kind of irony laced with brutality. But that is not uncommon with the Burmese military junta. Though the regime is in a hurry now, to conclude its constitution drafting National Convention, as a first step to its seven-point road map for democracy for an ostensible “people’s government”, it continues merrily to violate human rights. The Burma Army soldiers killed a villager, beat up 60 and torched two houses in Ye township, southern Burma recently. (more…)

The Myanmarese Army never suffers from a dearth of ideas to make money on the side. At a time when people in the country are pummeled by sky rocketing prices of essential commodities, soldiers are hawking posters from door to door in Kalay town, Sagaing Division and forcing residents to buy them at fancy prices.
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If the Burmese military junta is serious about solving the political problems which besiege the nation, the Burmese Army “should stop attacking us”, the Karen National Union said today.
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In a ghastly incident, a Burmese pastor was beheaded by an unidentified group in Churachanpur, Manipur state, India on Thursday.
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Bangladesh imported Burmese goods worth US $ 29.53 million in the 2005 – 2006 fiscal year, according to an official report.
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In a move to try and develop and diversify a faltering economy, private entrepreneurs will soon be allowed to invest and run overseas shipping lines, according to the Myanmar Times in a Thursday article.
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Myanmar has pledged to produce sufficient rice to meet the growing population in the years ahead by extending the cultivated area of paddy and raising per acre yield, a local weekly reported Friday.
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The Myanmar authorities have taken a fresh measure to facilitate formalities for export of easily rotten items of marine and agricultural products by issuing such export license directly at two international airports, sources with the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.
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Cathy Bradner is not your typical art collector. As you might expect, she and her husband Curt’s home is filled with original art they brought back from the South Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar. But the art serves a greater purpose than just beauty; it is literally saving lives.
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Indonesian House of Representatives member and AIPMC Chairman Djoko Susilo has met Assistant US Secretary of State Eric John and discussed Burmese political issues.
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Products from China are growing in popularity in Burma, with little concern over safety issues expressed in other countries.
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A British charity, Save the Children, says that conventional ways of reducing child hunger, such as better education and health services, are not always the best way to curb childhood malnutrition.
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Recent reports of flooding in areas of Burma and a deadly tornado that left hundreds in the former capital Rangoon homeless this month have again highlighted Burma’s desperate need for effective disaster relief efforts.
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