Two bombs exploded in different locations in the former Burmese capital
Rangoon yesterday evening, damaging property but causing no major
injuries, witnesses said.
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The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy has called on the Shan people
to vote against the draft constitution in the 10 May referendum, saying it
does not guarantee democratic or ethnic rights.
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Since March, the junta has been extensively campaigning for the people of
Shan State to support the junta drafted constitution in the upcoming
referendum in May, according to sources from Southern Shan State.
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As 10 May draws near, one of the growing concerns among eligible voters in
northern Shan State is that the polling officials will discover who they
are if they vote No, according to sources on the Sino-Burma border. (more…)

In a move stemming from fear of reprisal from the Burmese military junta,
salespersons in Rangoon are said to be taking back the ‘Nobody’ brand
T-shirts, from shops and showrooms it had sold it to.
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Local Burmese military junta officials in Chibway Township of Kachin State
in Northern Burma have reportedly begun wearing T-shirts with stickers
emblazoned with the words ‘Yes Vote’ to campaign among local villagers to
support the ruling junta’s draft constitution in the ensuing referendum.
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The Deputy Home Minster of Burma’s military government, Brig-Gen Phone Swe
visited the western border town of Maungdaw in Arakan State on Sunday to
organize people to cast “yes” votes in the referendum, said a government
official who refused to be named. (more…)

Burma’s Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-General Thura Aung Ko
made an official trip to townships in southern Chin state, western Burma
to campaign for the referendum to approve the constitution in the first
week of April.
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An anti-referendum graffiti campaign began in the heart of Mon State
during the New Year Water Festival Songkran, and has since spread
throughout Mon State.
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An ongoing Burmese army offensive has forced more than 2,000 Karen
villagers from Mon and Kyauk Gyi Townships in eastern Burma’s Pegu
Division to seek shelter in the jungle, according to relief agencies
active in the area.
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Myanmar’s junta is intensifying its campaign of intimidation against
dissidents, and conducting a propaganda drive, to ensure its new
constitution gets passed in a referendum next month, opposition leaders
said on Sunday.
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A crocodile attacked and killed a man who was under arrest for alleged
illegal logging in Myanmar, the country’s state-run newspaper reported
Sunday.
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Six Thai nationals will be charged with death by negligence after 54
illegal Myanmar migrants suffocated while being smuggled through Thailand
in a tiny, locked truck, police said Monday. (more…)

The campaign against the Burmese military junta’s referendum in May to
approve the constitution is gaining ground in Kachin State. Hundreds of
A-4 size Vote ‘No’ posters were pasted yesterday evening yet again in more
major towns in Kachin State, in Northern Burma, local activists said. (more…)

Interests of local residents in the coal mining areas have to be given
topmost priority in finalizing coal policy, said Dr M Tamim. “Bangladesh
has to swift to other power sources as natural gas is about to exhaust.
Coal is most likely the next option but its extraction strategy must have
to ensure interests of local livelihood,” said the Special Aide to Chief
Adviser for the Ministry of Power and Energy. (more…)

Bangladesh will conduct an assessment on Chinese and Thai contract farming
practices at Myanmar to introduce it in case of Bangladesh, official
sources said.
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Myanmar’s military government on Sunday declared the country bird-flu free
after three months without an outbreak of the deadly virus, state media
reported. (more…)

A congenital defect makes it difficult for May Thet Swe to see. The
4-year-old’s eyelids don’t open normally, so to look at something in front
of her, she has to tilt her head up to the sky.
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Burmese embassies have been announcing to Burmese people who live and work
abroad that they can go and vote at embassies for the constitutional
referendum, according to exiled Burmese. (more…)

Detainees from Myanmar rioted at a Malaysian holding camp on Monday,
torching a building, after hearing they had been denied asylum in a third
country, the authorities said.
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