Media advocacy groups have condemned Burma’s new crackdown on Internet freedom after the military regime reportedly arrested a wellknown blogger in Rangoon. (more…)

The Burmese blogger, Nay Phone Latt, allegedly arrested by the police on Tuesday has mysteriously gone missing, family members complained. (more…)

In a continuous crackdown on dissidents, Burmese authorities on Friday morning took in two youth members of Burma’s main opposition party – National League for Democracy – for interrogation, a party official said. (more…)

Change will only come to Burma if influential groups in the West and Asia work closely together, according to a study released by The International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think tank. (more…)

Taunggok township National League for Democracy communications committee member and human rights activist U Aung Than Htun passed away on 29 January at the age of 51. (more…)

Burma’s regime is stepping up its efforts to persuade armed ethnic groups to become more involved in its political reform program, even as it stalls in its talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

Soldiers from the Burmese army stationed in Buthidaung have looted several tons of rice from local traders transporting the rice from Sittwe on board the Danyawaddy ferry ship to be sold in Buthidaung markets, one woman trader told Narinjara over the phone yesterday. (more…)

Burmese health officials have banned the import of poultry from Bangladesh after the H4N1 virus has been found spreading among birds there recently, reports a police officer. (more…)

Many Burmese monks who’ve recently arrived in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka from Burma to apply for refugee status with the UNHCR are facing trouble with finding shelter. (more…)

Myint Thein, a 62 year-old spokesman for the Burmese opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has been admitted to Singapore General Hospital suffering from stomach cancer. He is said to be in critical condition. (more…)

Burmese comedians’ political satire reveals how the people think and how their rulers live in fear. (more…)

Words are cheap. And never cheaper than when humanitarian tragedies are invoked in speeches for dramatic effect or out of a perfunctory sense of obligation with no effective followup. (more…)

First Lady Laura Bush is still lobbying world leaders to pressure the military junta in Burma into reforming their government. (more…)

The fundamental challenge that the people of Burma are facing today stems from the military’s monopolization of power and its abuses against those who challenge its authority. (more…)

Stories and rumors about the latest “Rambo” movie have been circulating in Burmese newspapers and on web sites since filming began in Thailand. Burmese activists hoped it would help internationalize the political situation in Burma. (more…)