A prominent monastery in Rangoon has been ordered to close within one week by the Burmese authorities, according to the 88 Generation Students group.
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Local monks have refused to perform a funeral blessing for a notorious senior Swan Arr Shin member from Phaw Kan ward in Insein township who died recently.
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Popular Burmese musician Win Maw was arrested on Tuesday, along with two friends, Myat San and Aung Aung, as they sat in a Rangoon teashop, sources said on Wednesday.
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Burmese authorities keep a careful watch on the home of Tar Tar and monitor her daily activities when she leaves her house. Pro-junta supporters stand around on the street corners of her neighborhood.
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Two young soldiers deserted from the Burmese Army and arrived in Bangladesh recently seeking refuge. They left their weapons behind, border report said. (more…)

Authorities in San Dway township, Arakan state, have reportedly been conducting combat training inside a monastery compound, according to a San Dway resident, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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A propaganda booklet circulating in Rangoon contains an apparent regime reply to suggestions that the Burmese junta should be toppled by force, possibly through a missile strike on Naypyidaw.
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A Burmese poet facing a second trial for publishing politically sensitive material, despite having already been punished for the offence earlier this year, has fled to the Thai-Burma border.
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A workshop focused on the way to reduce violence against women held on Monday, 26 November, on the Thai-Burma border was attended by 28 participants, including 12 men.
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Military-ruled Myanmar attracted foreign direct investment worth more than $750 million during fiscal year that ended March 31, 2007, according to official figures made available Wednesday.
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Burma’s latest gem emporium came to a close yesterday, following a nearly two-week bazaar held under international pressure to ban the import and sales of gems originating from the strife-torn nation.
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Burma authorities in Kachin State in upper Burma have increased pressure on the Kachin Independence Organization, the main ceasefire group, by beefing up troops along the highway between Myitkyina, the state capital, and Laiza, where goods and timber are transported, according to a source close to the KIO.
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Zar Zar’s husband was a womanizer. Throughout their five years of marriage he was a regular in the brothels around the city of Rangoon in Burma, drank heavily, was violent, and more than once gave her a sexually transmitted infection.
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President Nguyen Minh Triet of Vietnam, which joins the UN Security Council next year, on Wednesday rejected Western moves to punish Myanmar, saying his country remembered the pain of economic sanctions.
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Amritsar, India — The Dalai Lama said Tuesday he supported the recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar and condemned the crackdown on the Buddhist monks who led them, saying it reminded him of China’s oppression of Tibetans.
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The Indian government gas been urged by the Ethnic Nationalities Council to use its influence over the Burmese military and help kick-start the process of national reconciliation through a tripartite dialogue. The Council is an umbrella group of Burmese ethnics in exile.
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A U.N. human rights investigator who recently returned from Myanmar said he believes there are more political prisoners detained in the country than the government says, although he would not estimate how many.
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A group of people from Myanmar submitted a petition with 5,205 signatures to the United Nations Center for Regional Development in Nagoya on Wednesday, asking the international body to persuade the military government to stop suppressing demonstrations and to free democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Bangkok – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will not discuss Burma when he makes his first visit to Thailand next month, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Wednesday.
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The debate on humanitarian intervention and covert operations to remove Burma’s regime leaders isn’t just a domestic talking point but is increasingly being taken up on Internet Web sites, in the media and even in US congressional hearings.
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