Prominent activist Htin Kyaw has vowed to continue with a hunger strike to call for the release of political prisoners, even though his health is suffering.
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Soldiers from the United Wa State Army clashed with Burmese government troops in eastern Shan state on 3 December, with both sides suffering casualties, according to the Shan Herald Tribune.
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Business owners in Rangoon have said that the placement of government propaganda slogans above commercial billboards at junctions in the city is unfair and demeaning.
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Dhaka: An gun fight between the Arakan Liberation Army and Burma Army troops took place yesterday on the Indo-Burma border, a local source said.
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Burmese junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe is reportedly suffering from strain and psychological problems and has sought an appointment at a hospital in Singapore for treatment, sources close to the military establishment said.
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First it was physic nuts. Now it’s sunflowers. Farmers in Pegu Division, about 80km north of Rangoon, are being instructed by local authorities to grow them, in the apparent superstitious belief that the flowers symbolize long life for the regime. (more…)

The UN on Tuesday designated Daniel Baker, head of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in Burma, as temporary head of UN operations in the country in place of Charles Petrie.
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A humanitarian agency working on the Thai-Burma border has been forced to make cuts in food provisions to Burmese refugees because of funding shortfalls. (more…)

The Burmese Army has directed locals in the rural areas of Chin state, Burma to destroy a 10-mile long Indo- Burma border road that connects Chin state and Mizoram state, northeast India. (more…)

To break the monopoly of a trade union in Mizoram in transporting goods from Burma to India’s northeast state, locals in Zokhawthar village halted a procession of trucks heading to pick up cargo from the neighbouring country.
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Several military trucks are believed to have been supplied to the Burmese junta by China. They were seen arriving on the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili this morning, a local eyewitness said.
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Burma’s Information Minister, Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, has appealed to journalists in neighboring countries to help counter negative news about events in his country. (more…)

The United Nations maintained silence Tuesday on the latest Burmese military government announcement that opposition leaders would not be involved in the drafting of the new constitution, even as the United States came out with a statement condemning it. (more…)

A senior United Nations official expelled from Burma this week warned on Wednesday that a “more volatile situation” lay ahead if the country’s military regime refused to recognise that recent mass protests stemmed from common people’s anger over economic woes.
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Burma’s military regime fired a warning shot this week to let the United Nations and the international community know that it will not cave into pressure on domestic political reform.
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The Democratic Voice of Burma based in Oslo, has been awarded the 2007 media award by the Reporters Sans Frontières, an international media rights group, for its outstanding coverage of the recent protests in Burma. The award carries 2,500 Euros. (more…)

The Burmese military government has won an award from an international housing rights group-for “Severe Human Rights Violations.”
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Burma’s supreme leader Than Shwe holds “fire” in one hand and “water” in the other. Don’t think the junta chief is playing martial arts, like in the Chinese movies he loves to watch.
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In the wake of the widespread non-violent protest movement against the military junta by large sections of the monks and students in August and September, 2007, the Myanmar military Junta, under international pressure, gave the impression of responding at long last to international concerns over its policies. Pressure from China also played an important role in this matter.
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The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo on Burma in response to the Burmese military government’s continuing recruitment of children for its national army, Human Rights Watch said today.
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