Protesters had difficulty communicating until they landed in jail, where they traded e-mail addresses and cellphone numbers. Many are out again, building a network for what they call a new revolution. (more…)

A new opposition bulletin, Ah-yoan-thit, or “Dawn,” was published and distributed by youth members of the National League for Democracy on January 4, the anniversary of Burma’s independence.
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The commanding officer of the Burmese Army’s Light Infantry Battalion 606, based in Badadchaung, Naypyidaw, and his intelligence officer have been arrested and charged with killing a corporal and a private, according to a source close to Naypyidaw Military Command.
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Owners of internet cafés in Rangoon say that authorities have imposed tighter restrictions on internet usage since the September protests and are monitoring users more closely.
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More than 10 political activists, including one monk, have been arrested since 1 January in Rangoon alone, according to sources from the pro-democracy movement.
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About 7000 people in Arakan state have signed in a petition calling on the government to release two members of the National League for Democracy.
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Over 1,000 acres of crop plantations belonging to the people were confiscated in Kachin State, Northern Burma by the Burmese ruling junta two weeks ago, farmers said.
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Burma’s ruling junta has further tightened the procedure for selection of scholars going abroad for further studies after reforming the selection committee. (more…)

Rumors are doing round in Burma’s former capital city of Rangoon that the increased Satellite Television license fees would be drastically drop back from Kyat 10 million (US$800) to Kyat 50,000 (US $ 38).
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A spokes person of one of the largest ethnic political party, Shan National League for Democracy, told the BBC that there was a need of urgent medical attention to their incarcerated leaders who have been sent to the prisons in remote areas of the country.
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Two Burmese Army Sergeants, who allegedly deserted their camp in fear of reprisal after refusing to attend junta organize riot control training, has arrive the Maela refugee camp along the Thai-Burmese border.
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Squatting along rocky banks of the Nmai Hka River, villagers labour dawn till dusk over large wooden pans, scrounging for crumbs from the junta’s table.
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Myanmar will auction off the building of National Library in the first week of February as part of the country’s privatization program, local Voice journal reported on Monday.
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Singapore – Increasing numbers of maids are being hired from Thailand, India and Myanmar by Singaporean employers claiming their temperaments are sweeter and they are better behaved than Filipinos and Indonesians, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Those from Thailand, India and Myanmar account for 6 per cent of the 170,000 domestic workers in the city-state. Agencies said the numbers are rising.
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“I came for work in Thailand now I am living in prison,” said a Karen boy, Than Soe, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail after the Thai police found 1,800 amphetamine tablets in his jacket.
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Asean wrote a new page in its history on Monday as Thailand’s Surin Pitsuwan assumed the leadership of the 10-nation organization. But will his five-year term of office bring any help for Burma?
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Dhaka: Burmese ministerial level delegates will attend a meeting in Dhaka of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or Bimstec, on poverty alleviation in the region, on 10 January 2008, according to an official report.
Burma’s senior officials will arrive in Dhaka on 8 January to prepare the agenda for the ministerial meeting that will be held on Thursday. There are no reports of which ministers from Burma will be in attendance. (more…)

Dhaka: A leading monk organization working on Burmese monk affairs was formed by five monks’ organizations in Bangladesh on Friday at a monastery in the Chittagong Hill Tract area in Bangladesh, said U Thiha, the spokesperson of the new organization.
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Saw Winning discusses the Karen culture Sunday afternoon at Thunder Bay‘s First Presbyterian Church.
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A man from Myanmar who was denied asylum by the Swiss authorities nearly four years ago has joined his family in Switzerland. (more…)