A rare shooting incident has taken place late Monday in the leafy Yangon neighbourhood where Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest, police said. (more…)

The Moustache Brothers are Lu Zaw, left, Par Par Lay and Lu Maw. Their act banned, the three continue to perform political satire at home, in English. Myanmar’s famous comedy troupe, unable to publicly stage its satirical routines, still pokes fun at the ruling generals nightly at home. “Joking shares the suffering,” says one member. (more…)

The U.N. special envoy for Burma will leave New York Wednesday on his third trip to the military-ruled country. (more…)

Buddhist monks in Mandalay in upper Burma on Monday launched a harshly worded poster campaign urging a “Vote No” against the government’s referendum on a draft constitution, said sources close to the campaign. (more…)

Street vendors and the people who rely on them in central Rangoon are experiencing great difficulties following Rangoon municipality’s decision to order vendors to stop selling products, especially food, on the streets. (more…)

In preparation for the upcoming May referendum, Burmese authorities have begun issuing identity cards to ethnic ceasefire groups, according to officials from Burma’s insurgent groups. (more…)

In preparation for the upcoming May referendum, Burmese authorities have begun issuing identity cards to ethnic ceasefire groups, according to officials from Burma’s insurgent groups. (more…)

Four political prisoners, including prominent 88 generation student, Markee have been locked away in dark cells in the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon by prison authorities, activists sources said. (more…)

A meeting cloaked in secrecy by the secretive Burmese military junta is to be held in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday. (more…)

Members of the 88 Generation Students group have been charged under anti-subversion legislation and could face up to 20 years’ imprisonment, their lawyer said. (more…)

Eight monks and seven nuns from Artharwaddy monastery in North Okkalapa township, who were arrested in Rangoon after last year’s September protests, appeared in court on 27 February. (more…)

Border trade in a small village in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province has been halted for the past two weeks, after Karen rebels attacked a group of Burmese soldiers who were being transported across the Salween River. (more…)

“A subsidiary of the Company has received a Letter of Award from PTTEP International Limited for a 3 well contract offshore Myanmar, for the jack-up drilling rig Deep Driller 5, with an estimated duration of 4 months. (more…)

Sixty-one Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Mon ethnicity have contracted cholera in Ananbon village in eastern Burma, an area controlled by the New Mon State Party (NMSP). (more…)

India is quietly preparing a new diplomatic offensive with the military junta in Burma. Recently India’s Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon was in Nay Pyi Taw, the new Burmese capital. (more…)

When Burma’s brave monks took to the streets last September, they knew full well they were creating a media event. As the world’s media turned to Burma, in a spotlight cast by the pall of smoke, cracks of gunfire and amid stories of widespread atrocities, a communications bridge to the world was being built. Here, an opportunity was created to spread the word on Burma and the plight of its people under a brutal dictatorship. (more…)

Dear listeners, a high-level official of the International Labour Organization who left Nay Pyi Taw just yesterday said although the cooperation agreement on forced labour between his organization and the military junta could be extended, force labour practices particularly by the military are continuing atrociously in the country. (more…)