Two National League for Democracy members who were detained for allegedly campaigning against the regime’s draft constitution in the run-up to the 10 May referendum have appeared in court.
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The health of 88 Generation Students group member Myo Yan Naung Thein has got progressively worse in Insein prison, a close friend of his family told DVB on condition of anonymity.
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Four youth members of the National League for Democracy in southern Arakan’s Taungup Township were sentenced to one year in prison by the Burmese military authority for distributing statements issued by NLD headquarters in Rangoon, reported a NLD member. (more…)

A foreign volunteer working with a Burmese nongovernmental organization (NGO) has left the country after receiving repeated warnings from the authorities over a series of interviews she conducted with ethnic leaders and senior politicians. (more…)

In an apparent move to earn revenue from Burma’s motorcycle owners, the authorities are selling licenses to the general public for a period of four months, from July until the end of October. Residents of Rangoon and Naypyidaw are excluded from the new provision, however.
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Burmese military junta authorities have only pretended to help victims in some parts of cyclone ravaged areas, claimed villagers.
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More than 80 women and children who were victims of Myanmar’s recent cyclone have been rescued from human traffickers scheming to smuggle them to neighboring countries, a media report said Thursday.
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More than 100 Thais returned to their border village yesterday after Karen fighters regained their base from Burmese troops.
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Tak authorities are planning a rail link between the western Thai town of Tak and Mae Sot, which borders Burma.
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Myanmar needs more natural gas in addition to hydropower to generate over 500 megawatts (mw) of electricity to be supplied to Yangon round the clock, the leading local weekly Yangon Times reported Thursday.
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A Rangoon based Non-Government Organization; Country Agency for Rural Development (CAD) has pledged to begin another project to combat malaria in remote areas of Chin state, Burma in September this year.
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Chiang Mai: Following a secret largest investigation against drug users since 1988, young tycoon Maung Weik stands to face severe punishment for alleged drug trafficking. (more…)

A tripartite core group (TCG) involving the  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar and the United Nations  (U.N.) has claimed that the group’ said efforts for transit of relief items into  Myanmar and down into the cyclone-hard-hit delta, have reached over 1.3 million  victims.
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The UN Security Council will take up the political impasse in Burma this month, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Wednesday. No agreement on the date of the discussion could be reached.
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The road map introduced by the Burmese regime in Burma is in reality nothing other than its own exit strategy. Burma’s paramount leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe wants to ashin htwat—meaning “to come out alive.” And this remains his transitional plan.
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An Oxford economics professor said in a recent Washington Post article that the best hope for either Burma or Zimbabwe is that military officers might overthrow their respective dictators and leap through a window of legitimacy held open by the free world (“Let us now praise coups,” June 22). (more…)

U Win Tin is the world’s longest serving “prisoner of conscience” and  a “veteran journalist of Burma”. (more…)

Burma has reinforced its troops in the disputed area of Doi Lang mountain, which an army source said might result from its ‘’misunderstanding'’ over a Thai military exercise in the border area. Since last week, more Burmese soldiers with heavy weapons have been deployed to the Doi Lang area, opposite Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district. A 32-sq km area of land has sparked a row between Burma and Thailand, which have their own versions of border demarcation maps. (more…)