Myanmar Politics Anti-inflation Burmese demonstrator spends three months in jail Yangon The leader of an anti-inflation demonstration in downtown Yangon on Monday completed his third month in jail, sources said.
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A riot reportedly broke out between Muslim and Buddhist residents in Rangoon’s Daw Pon township late on Friday, forcing local authorities to issue a curfew.
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Burma’s ruling military junta has threatened to “kick the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) to the mountains” if they persist in their demand for an autonomous Kachin State.
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The Burma Army has directed units of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) along the Thai-Burma border to return to their original areas on the Sino-Burma border, according to Shan and Thai sources.
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A novel about the “spiritual” marriage between gay Burmese men and the spirits being known as Nat was named to the longlist of nominees for a new Asian literary prize, according to a statement released last week.
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The resettlement program for the Burmese refugee community along Thailand’s border with Burma is having a negative effect on education in the camps, according to an official of the Karen Refugee Committee.
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Thailand: Star Trek boldly took its cast where no man had gone before, but one member of the original television series found the Thai-Myanmar border region as troubling as anywhere the show took him.
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Myanmar’s biggest business organization, the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), has urged private trading companies in the country to strive for effective business operation globally, saying it is ready to render assistance to increase the number of such globally operational private trading enterprises.
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Burma’s leading HIV/AIDS activist on Monday welcomed a call by Human Rights Watch for international pressure on Burma’s government to end its harassment and intimidation of AIDS activists.
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will expand its HIV prevention project in Myanmar with the help of Three-Disease (3-D) Fund to cover two dozen more areas in the country, a local weekly reported Monday. (more…)

As Burma marked the 10 year anniversary of its membership in ASEAN today the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus said the regional grouping had failed to encourage democratisation in the country.
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Burmese Deputy Foreign Minister U Kyaw Thu, on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh , will hold talks on strengthening bilateral cooperation during a meeting today with Bangladesh Foreign Secretary. (more…)

An advertisement placed in Monday’s English-language Myanmar Times newspaper by a satirical art group had a hidden message calling the country’s military ruler Gen. Than Shwe a “killer.”
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July 19, Reporters Without Borders today condemned the government’s decision to obstruct foreign and Burmese press coverage of a national convention that has the job of writing a new constitution. No foreign journalist has been given a visa, while Burmese journalists were granted only very limited access to yesterday’s opening session. (more…)

The leaders of Thailand, China, India, Russia and Singapore have a great opportunity to set free 50 million people from virtual slavery.
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July marked the 10th anniversary of Burma’s admission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. During the past decade, Burma’s prolonged political crises, the junta’s reluctance to push for democratic reform and the continued imprisonment of opposition figures-including Aung San Suu Kyi-have severely damaged the credibility of Asean in the eyes of the world community.
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