Police officers and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association warned the families of National League for Democracy members detained yesterday not to talk to anyone about the arrests. (more…)

After a welcome absence from the public scene in the past few months, the ugly thugs of Burma’s two pro-government militia movements, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and its sister group, Swan Ah Shin (“Masters of Force”), are back on the streets. (more…)

Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in good health when her personal doctor visited her after last month’s deadly cyclone, a senior official with her party told AFP on Friday. (more…)

In a change of guard, Burma’s secretive military rulers have carried out a major reshuffle in the cabinet and in key positions held by its military commanders. (more…)

With a firm belonging to a henchman of the Burmese military junta refusing to rebuild a middle school in Rangoon devastated by Cyclone Nargis, a group of foreign monks have come forward to do the needful. (more…)

“Life in a refugee camp is living like an animal in a cage,” said Myint Swe on Friday, officially International Refugee Day. (more…)

Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production PCL PTTE.BK will sign a heads of agreement on Monday with the Myanmar government to develop the offshore Block M9 natural gas project, a Thai ministry official said on Friday. (more…)

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Myanmar and a consortium, led by the Daewoo International Group Corporation, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Nay Pyi Taw Friday on sale and transport of natural gas from the offshore blocks A-1 and A-3. (more…)

The Women’s League of Burma in Bangladesh staged a demonstration in Dhaka on the occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 63rd birthday, calling for her immediate release from house arrest. (more…)

The United Nations warned Friday that it will be forced to ground helicopters that have been ferrying critical aid to Myanmar’s cyclone survivors unless the international community urgently provides more funding. (more…)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to discuss the current humanitarian crisis in Burma and the UN-led international efforts for restoration of democracy in the country. (more…)

Cindy McCain blasted Myanmar’s military junta and vowed to make improving human rights there a priority if she becomes America’s next first lady. (more…)

Elliot Wilson explains why international condemnation of Burma’s brutal military leaders is so ineffectual: because many other countries are eager to do deals with them. (more…)

Nearly two months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, humanitarian relief groups are still struggling to get government permission to deliver life-saving aid to 2 million survivors, said Richard Jacquot, a San Francisco resident and emergency program manager for Mercy Corps. (more…)

I didn’t realize that the article that I wrote last fall would be significant and be a precious moment in my life. After retiring from the media world and living as a student in North Carolina State, Mizzima editor Sein Win who was a classmate in media training conducted in Cambodia seven years ago, pressed me to write an article for his media. It was no doubt Sein Win created a remarkable opportunity for me to write a Burma related article after a three-year lull. (more…)