Burmese monks are being urged in an anti-government pamphlet to boycott annual regime-organized examinations to show solidarity with protesting monks who were dispersed by the authorities and pro-junta thugs in the September demonstrations.
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A man from South Dagon township, Rangoon, was stabbed and beaten by local officials after his mother filed a complaint about him to the ward Peace and Development Council.
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As the first tentative step towards reviving the September Saffron Revolution, a new group of activists called – the Generation Wave – today urged all Burmese people to honor the fallen monks by pinning pieces of robes on their person.
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The Burmese military junta recently released Arakan State NLD chairman from the Sittwe prison in western Burma after he served three years. He was, however, required to sign a bond that he would not be involved in any anti-government demonstrations after his release, said an NLD member from Sittwe.
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A senior official of the Burmese military government, Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint has arrived at the China-Burma border region in an attempt to lobby ethnic groups in Shan state-including ceasefire groups, such as the United Wa State Army, the Shan State Army-(North) and the Kokang armies-to support the government’s National Convention.
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Regular training of Christians have been deeply hampered by military intelligence agents of the Burmese ruling junta in Kachin State in Northern Burma since early this month, said local church sources. (more…)

Declining readership has hit several news journals hard, leading to loss of revenue. This despite the fact that the Burmese military junta has relatively slackened its control over issuing of journal publishing license, editors in Rangoon said. (more…)

Over 1000 soldiers from several battalions under Sakakha 15 based in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan State capital Sittwe, left recently for the eastern frontlines to wage war against ethnic rebels, reports a source close to the army.
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Military-run Myanmar has wrapped up a gem auction, a major money-spinner for the junta, state media said Tuesday, despite sanctions and calls for a boycott following its deadly crackdown on protests.
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The ban on import of goods from Burma by Mizoram state in India on November 19 has hit traders hard.  Traders with cargo from Burma arrived along Tio River on the Indo-Burma border trade road No (2) but were unable to enter Mizoram.
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India has frozen the sale and transfer of all arms to the Burmese government, a decision following the junta’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in September.
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At its latest annual summit, the Association of South-East Asian Nations adopted the motto: “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”. The slogan may come back to haunt the 10-member group given the scepticism that has greeted its plan to create a single market by 2015 and the political divisions exposed by Burma.
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EU sanctions on military-ruled Myanmar will not hold up talks on a free trade deal with Southeast Asia, a top European negotiator said Tuesday.
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Burma slipped two ranks last year to 132nd position out of a list of 175 countries in the latest Human Development report released by the United Nations Development Program on Tuesday.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded a Special Award for Lifetime Achievement in Politics by the Political Studies Association, PSA of the United Kingdom.
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