The National League for Democracy, Burma’s main opposition political party urged the military junta yet again to convene Parliament to solve the political dilemma the country is facing. (more…)

Three members of the 88 Generation Students group who are helping the victims of Cyclone Nargis were arrested by the authorities last Friday 13 June. (more…)

Cyclone Nargis almost destroyed the remote village of Kyon Ka Nan, but residents are now rebuilding their homes and their food stocks, aided by a resilient group of Myanmar volunteers. (more…)

Despite assurances of free access by private donors to cyclone-devastated areas of Burma, the military government continues to arrest individuals taking aid to survivors of the May 2-3 storm. (more…)

Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar’s military regime, but that hasn’t stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors through his website. (more…)

Myanmar’s military government is warning that “destructive elements” are seeking to create panic by spreading rumors that more natural disasters will hit the country after last month’s deadly cyclone. (more…)

More than six weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta in southern Myanmar, leaving a trail of flattened villages and broken lives and arousing international sympathy that turned to anguish as the military government obstructed foreign aid. (more…)

Farmer Zaw Naing was puzzled as he stared at the brand new, unassembled tilling machine, equipment not seen in most of Burma’s rice belt before the deadly cyclone. (more…)

Farmers in Bogalay are still waiting to receive hand tractors after being sent to different places around the township and being asked to pay several admin fees to process their applications. (more…)

Following last September’s uprising and the destruction of Cyclone Nargis, there has been a significant decline in tourism within Burma and the industry is beginning to suffer. (more…)

The Cyclone Nargis disaster in Burma showed the world that a revitalised Association of Southeast Asian Nations can “rise to the occasion,” Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said on Wednesday. (more…)

More than 50,000 farmers in cyclone-hit Myanmar will be unable to plant a new rice crop by August unless they receive immediate aid, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. (more…)

The Council of the European Union should use their meeting in Brussels Thursday to back a call to bring Myanmar’s junta chief to be tried in the international court for crimes against humanity, Myanmar’s activist monks said in a statement Wednesday. (more…)

Burma’s political opposition wants to take the country’s ruling military junta to the International Court of Justice on charges of crimes against humanity, according to a top Burmese trade unionist and opposition figure, Maung Maung. (more…)

The aftermath of Cyclone Nargis has produced a number of local private relief groups in a country where civil society is under strict scrutiny by the authorities-giving rise to the question: could this phenomenon grow into some kind of social structure? (more…)

I couldn’t believe it. Finally we were on our way. I looked out the helicopter window and reflected on the last three weeks working in Rangoon. (more…)

(1) Tomorrow, on June 19, 2008, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will again have to spend her 63rd birthday in detention alone. She and her party members were attacked by thousands of civilian militias, organized and supported by the Burmese military junta, on the night of May 30, 2003, at nearby Depayin Township in central Burma. Although she escaped from the assassination attempt, scores of her party members were brutally killed, and she was arrested by the military junta, along with U Tin Oo, Vice Chairman of the National League for Democracy, and put in detention since then. Recently, on May 27, 2008, the military junta extended her detention again for the sixth year. We wish her all the best and thank her for her leadership and her unity with the people of Burma. Even though the junta tries to isolate her from us, she is always with us. However the junta tries to undermine her, she is still the leader of Burma’s democracy movement. Any political solution without her involvement will be meaningless and unsustainable. (more…)

On 19 June 2008, Burma’s democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will once again spend her birthday under house arrest in Rangoon. She has been under detention and barred from communicating with the outside world since May 2003, when the military regime attempted to assassinate her. (more…)

Over 3,500 people, including many ethnic Kayan, will be displaced by a new dam being built in the Pyinmana Hills that will boost power to Burma¹s military leaders. (more…)