Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to meet political allies for the second time since last year’s bloody crackdown. (more…)

Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is frustrated at a lack of talks on political reform with the ruling military junta since last year’s bloody crackdown on dissent, her party said on Wednesday. (more…)

The crackdown by Myanmar’s military rulers has left few monks in the monasteries of Sittwe. The monasteries in Sittwe are half empty, only the children remain. (more…)

U Gambira, the leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance who is currently being held in Insein prison, has been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, according to family members. (more…)

People in two villages in Thandwe Township of Arakan State have been forced by township authorities to work on the construction of lakes if they are unable to contribute financially to the project, reports a social worker from Thandwe. (more…)

A United Nations report released on Tuesday accused the Burmese armed forces, the country’s Tatmadaw, and armed ethnic groups of recruiting children to serve as soldiers. (more…)

Burma’s main opposition political party, the National League for Democracy, plans to launch an essay competition on national reconciliation, party officials say. (more…)

Three hundred illegal Burmese migrant workers were arrested by Thai immigration on Monday in a raid on a garment factory in Bangkok, according to migrant sources. (more…)

Nwe Ni Tun carrying the Human Rights Torch last year. Burmese communities around the world joined the rally in protest of Beijing’s support of the military junta ruling Burma. (more…)

European Union special envoy for Burma Piero Fassino, right, and outgoing Foreign Affairs Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram meet before attending a joint press conference yesterday. (more…)

British tourists to Thailand are being urged to boycott visits to a tribe of long-necked women, amid allegations that they are being held against their will in a “human zoo”. (more…)

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged further measures to combat child military recruitment yesterday, which he said continues to take place in more than 12 countries including Burma. (more…)

The US State Department has condemned the Burmese government’s decision to charge 88 generation student leaders Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi and eight other activists. (more…)

I recently met a group of influential monks from Burma. I immediately asked them about the monk-led uprising in September. (more…)

The Burma Campaign UK today dismissed as total nonsense claims by the regime ruling Burma that it is taking action on child soldiers. State run newspaper New Light of Myanmar is claiming that hundreds of children have been returned to their families in recent years. (more…)

Burma’s military government, the SPDC, has according to reports from the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch and the BBC, killed unarmed civilian protesters, recruited child soldiers, tortured, raped and enslaved its citizens and razed 3000 villages to the ground in the past 10 years. (more…)