Cherry and Kay Kay walk into room Number Two of a Yangon karaoke bar, where a man waits alone for them on a brown leather sofa. (more…)

Veteran Burmese politicians, opposition activists and ethnic ceasefire leaders have urged Burma’s military regime to hold a free and fair national referendum and general election. (more…)

Veteran Burmese politicians, opposition activists and ethnic ceasefire leaders have urged Burma’s military regime to hold a free and fair national referendum and general election. (more…)

Owners of Internet cafes and their customers are complaining that servers in Rangoon have become increasingly unreliable in recent weeks. (more…)

Three ethnic Pa-O ceasefire group leaders were summoned and detained for questioning by the Burmese army following a clash in the Shan State capital that killed two Burmese soldiers. (more…)

Fifteen children from Tharawaddy township in Bago division were abducted by government troops about 10 days ago and forced to join the army, local residents said. (more…)

National League for Democracy spokesperson U Nyan Win has criticised the junta for not making public the national convention principles, despite claims by the chief justice that they were available. (more…)

Residents of Insein township, Rangoon division, were angered when local authorities allowed a pro-government group to hand out leaflets in the township. (more…)

A Burmese magazine issued a harsh critique of Sylvester Stallone’s performance in the latest installment of the Rambo franchise. (more…)

On 20 January 2008, at 1:00am, Loilem based Light Infantry Battalion 12 commander Major Yang Aung Win led a 35 strong patrol on the way to Natu to Hsikkhar village, Mongkhun village tract, Mongkung township and stole 11 chickens (value about Kyat 22,000, US $ 18) from Hsikkar village and a pair of sneakers value Kyat 3,000(US $ 2.5). Then at 10:30am, they went into villagers Pawhsang Nyeing and Maehsang Nyeing’s house and took Kyat 833,700(US $ 695) and a chicken value at Kyat 3,000(US $ 2.5), according to a local source. (more…)

Around fourteen Burmese migrants, including three children, were injured this morning by a bomb blast at a garbage dump located about 2 km from the Thai-Burmese border town of Mae Sot, according to witnesses. (more…)

Burmese authorities have temporarily closed cargo piers on the Moei river, holding up a large volume of border trade, the Tak Chamber of Commerce said yesterday. (more…)

Indian Oil Company, Essar, will start drilling the first test well in May at the onshore Block L gas field in Burma’s western State of Arakan, the company’s spokesperson said. (more…)

The India government is determined not to lose out completely to China in the battle for the hearts and minds-and natural resources-of the Burmese junta. (more…)

A U.N. envoy said Friday he is frustrated with Myanmar’s slow progress toward democracy, but is hopeful that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will be allowed to take part in planned elections. (more…)

The TUC has called for a boycott of Lonely Planet guidebooks until the Burma edition is withdrawn from sale. (more…)

Indonesia became the first big developing country yesterday to criticise Burma’s draft constitution, which entrenches military rule by banning leading opposition activists from politics, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel prize-winning democracy advocate. (more…)

Costa Rican Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias has added his name to the nine original signatories of an appeal calling on an international arms embargo on Burma. (more…)

THEY FLY no flag, they rule no territory, yet winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have earned the right to act, at certain times, as representatives of the world’s conscience. This was never more true than in the statement on Burma issued this week by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and signed by eight of his fellow Nobel laureates. (more…)

Burma’s military government continues to crack down on the country’s struggling independent media, most recently by the arrest last week of Rangoon-based journalists Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung-respectively the editor and office manager of the Myanmar Nation weekly news journal. (more…)