Ten thousand pregnant women among Burma’s estimated 2.4 million cyclone survivors are in urgent need of proper care, a UN official said Wednesday, as fresh questions were raised about the government’s willingness to accept foreign assistance. (more…)

As private donors disappear from cyclone-affected areas of the Irrawaddy delta, residents of Bogalay, one of the hardest-hit towns in the disaster zone, say that they are struggling to rebuild their homes by themselves. (more…)

Freedom fighters and veteran politicians urged the Burmese junta today to allow aid workers and disaster management experts into the country to get adequate aid for cyclone victims. (more…)

Local Burmese military junta authorities in cyclone-hit Kungyankone, Rangoon Division have begun seizing video and still cameras. At least 10 have been confiscated so far. (more…)

The police in Mon state, on the pretext of searching for some kind of identification of bodies of Cyclone Nargis victims floating into the area, have been taking away jewellery found on the corpses, said local people. (more…)

One of 15 National League for Democracy members freed from detention on Monday said they had to sign a document before their release agreeing not to take part in further protests. (more…)

The Union Solidarity and Development Association has begun to send its members to participate in relief efforts, possibly in a bid to counter criticism of the group, one commentator said. (more…)

A 92 percent of electric power supply has resumed in cyclone-hit Yangon division of Myanmar more than a month after a cyclone storm hit the country, according to the local-language Myanmar Times Thursday. (more…)

A group of Shan migrants who have been evicted from lands which they believed they had lawfully purchased have appealed to Thai authorities to withdraw charges against them for trespassing on government-owned land. (more…)

In terms of Burma’s stagnant economy, the town of Pyapon was, until recently, a success story. Fish farming and both freshwater and offshore fishing were dynamic industries, attracting many Burmese and foreign investors. Farmers seemed to have it easy too. The fertile Irrawaddy delta produced the highest grade rice in the country and an abundance of crops. Since the cyclone however, Pyapon’s economy has been all but wiped out. (more…)

Medicines Sans Frontiers or Doctors Without Borders has said while diarrhea, cholera and acute respiratory problems are common among cyclone survivors in Burma, there is not enough evidence of an ‘outbreak’. (more…)

Southeast Asian and UN experts will have full access to cyclone-devastated parts of Myanmar, where more than a million people have still not received any foreign help, ASEAN said Thursday. (more…)

Up to 35,000 pregnant cyclone survivors are in urgent need of proper care in Myanmar, a U.N. expert said Wednesday, as relief agencies again raised concerns about the junta’s willingness to accept foreign aid. (more…)

The United Nations says it has raised less than half of its goal for relief operations in Myanmar more than five weeks after a cyclone devastated the country. (more…)

A month after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, more than one million people severely affected by the storm have yet to receive any food, water, or shelter, and the so-called “second wave” of dying from disease, thirst, and hunger has begun in earnest. (more…)

Burma’s men in uniform are now to be seen in the areas of the country devastated by Cyclone Nargis, which left up to 2.5 million people in urgent need of food, water and shelter. But the troops aren’t there to help these victims. Instead of aid, they bring only fear and oppression to the survivors. (more…)

1. In accordance with the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law and the authorities’ promises after the 1990 General Election in Burma, “the Union of Myanmar Draft Constitution,” for which a referendum was conducted in Burma on 10 and 24 May 2008, was drafted illegally. As per the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law, the Members of Parliament elected in the 1990 General Election by the people of Burma were legally responsible for drafting the constitution. Instead, “the Union of Myanmar Draft Constitution” was written solely by handpicked representatives and associates of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Officially and legally elected Members of Parliament, let alone citizens, were prohibited from reviewing or discussing the content of this constitution. The drafting process did not provide any opportunities for political parties, ethnic nationality groups, or democratic organizations to review or critique the constitution. (more…)