The Ratana Metta Organisation will start providing antiretroviral drugs (ARV) to HIV-infected people for the first time starting in January, said U Myint Swe, the president of the organisation. (more…)

Rangoon – Burma’s military regime has recently released from detention 96 monks who participated in September’s marches, permitting half of them to return to the Ngwekyaryan monastery in Rangoon, sources said Monday. (more…)

A military plane crashed during a test flight in central Myanmar on Monday, killing the pilot and co-pilot, government officials said. (more…)

Members of the 88 Generation Students group have expressed deep concerns over detained colleagues who have been in poor health since the Burmese military authorities forced student leaders to coexist with criminals. (more…)

Twenty five monks from a Rangoon Buddhist university, including a number of junior tutors, have been expelled from the campus, according to reliable sources. (more…)

The abbot of Zantila Rama monastery has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for defamation after complaining about the seizure of money from the monastery during a raid. (more…)

The September demonstrations and their aftermath haven’t disturbed the busy schedule of Burma’s junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe. Despite the international attention and condemnation attracted by his regime’s brutal suppression of the demonstrations, Than Shwe is continuing with a round of ceremonies invariably involving high praise for the soldiers who carried out its shoot-to-kill orders. (more…)

A number of anti-military junta statements were spray painted were spray painted on the streets of Taungup in southern Arakan State recently, said a teacher from the town. (more…)

The Burmese first lady, Kyaing Kyaing, wife of Snr. Gen. Than Shwe, broke her leg after she slipped and fell at her residence, a source close to the military establishment said. (more…)

In a progressive step towards information technology, Burma’s repressive military rulers have inaugurated a Cyber City near its second largest city of Mandalay in central Burma. (more…)

Demonstrations by Karenni refugees in northern Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province following the death of one of their community, allegedly killed by a Thai security official, continued on Monday after a protest march turned violent on Sunday. (more…)

The deadlock over importing goods from Burma to Mizoram northeast India has been resolved. Mizoram authorities on Saturday lifted the ban on import after the Zokhwathar Welfare Association and Champhai Transport Union resolved the imbroglio over transporting goods for 25 days. (more…)

The World Health Organization and Burma’s state-owned media has confirmed the country’s first human case of bird flu which was detected in a girl. (more…)

Myanmar, the world’s second-largest opium producer after Afghanistan, seized nearly 40kg of opium last month, the official New Light of Myanmar daily said yesterday. (more…)

In a view to uplift the Buddhist Sasana (religion) Burmese monks on Sunday formed an organization at Buddhist sacred place of Gaya in India’s Bihar state. (more…)

On the invitation of various Buddhist organizations, the ‘International Burmese Monks Organization’ (Sasana Moli) led by venerable U Pannavamsa started its tour of Japan from 7th December, wrapping it up by the 16 th of this month. The Organization intends to seek further support from the international community to immediately stop hostilities and acts of repression in Burma and begin a genuine political process of reformation by inclusive dialogue. (more…)

The U.N. Human Rights Council told Myanmar on Friday to prosecute those who committed abuses during a crackdown on peaceful monk-led protests and free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners. (more…)

The military junta in Burma came under fierce pressure from the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, and from the White House, in the unusual guise of Laura Bush this week. While the US First Lady was telling the generals to introduce democratic reforms or to step aside, the All-Burma Monks Alliance was agitating for a UN commission to establish how many monks were killed in the September protests and how many are still imprisoned. (more…)

The security policemen who snatched the young shop owner from his bed and hauled him off to the bare interrogation room of Mandalay’s police station No 14 really had only one question – and just one answer – in mind. (more…)