Burma’s Ministry of Information has brushed aside rumors that Head of State Senior General Than Shwe’s health is failing and that he is currently hospitalized. (more…)

At least 2,100 people are homeless as a result of a new Burmese Army offensive this month in Burma’s Karen State, a new report divulges. (more…)

Few people can claim justifiably to understand the relationship between Burma’s secretive military rulers and China, their key trading partner, arms supplier and diplomatic ally. (more…)

Less than a week after an unsuccessful visit to Burma by UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari, one of the country’s most respected journalists has made an extraordinary appeal for a “people power” uprising to end the ruling regime’s stranglehold on power. (more…)

The Burmese regime is ordering local authorities in Rangoon to persuade residents to support the national referendum in May, according to informed sources in the former capital. (more…)

Security has been tightened in Rangoon ahead of Human Rights Day, according to sources in the former capital. (more…)

Discrimination, lack of promotion opportunities and employment benefits in the Burmese Army has caused desertions and defection to the Karen National Union (KNU), said four deserters. (more…)

They may look leafless and lifeless, but Kyaw Sinnt is certain that his nut trees are the key to Myanmar’s chronic energy shortage. (more…)

From what he has said and from what the military junta expressed to him during his third visit, United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari is unlikely to have achieved anything toward national reconciliation and democracy in military run Burma. (more…)

Some 1,850 political prisoners are behind bars as of January in Myanmar, as the government “accelerated” rather than stopped unlawful arrests, a United Nations report said Wednesday. (more…)

Burma’s already bad human rights record got worse last year, the United States said Tuesday. (more…)

The International Labour Organisation said it will extend for 12 months a deal with Myanmar aimed at compensating victims of forced labour but urged the junta to do more to raise the deal’s profile. (more…)

Do you remember the name of Burma’s longest serving prisoner of conscience and prominent journalist? (more…)

Do you remember the name of Burma’s longest serving prisoner of conscience and prominent journalist? (more…)

Do you remember the name of Burma’s longest serving prisoner of conscience and prominent journalist? (more…)