Burma’s state-run newspapers rejected the use of the term “political prisoners” to describe imprisoned dissidents, saying in a series of articles published ahead of Thursday’s commemoration of the United Nations’ Declaration on Prisoners of Conscience that detained activists were actually guilty of criminal offenses. (more…)

A morning breeze cools a perspiring Zaw Moe as he walks through a residential neighborhood in the outskirts of Rangoon with a pile of books in his arms. (more…)

The larger ethnic Kachin organisations in Northern Burma set up an ‘Interim Kachin Committee (IKC)’ on June 20 to form a big Kachin and Non-Kachin political party to gear up for Burma’s 2010 general elections announced by the military junta, sources said. (more…)

Despite of the absence of a key prosecutor’s witness, a township court in Burma’s former capital on Thursday conducted the hearing of the case of a Burmese female reporter, who was arrested while covering on victims of Cyclone Nargis. (more…)

The ninth issue of a Chin Magazine for the academic year 2007-08 will be published on August. The effort comes from Chin students from universities in Rangoon , the former capital of Burma. (more…)

Two top foreign officials from Burma and Bangladesh pledged on Wednesday during a meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum held in Singapore to resolve disputes over their shared maritime boundaries in the quickest possible time, according to a press release. (more…)

No matter how much she loved the river and sea that once provided her family’s daily food, Tin Tin Latt now just wants to stay away from the water that widowed her, killed two of her children and destroyed the family’s livelihood. (more…)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has attacked the Burmese military’s plan for a gradual restoration of democratic government. (more…)

United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes acknowledged Thursday that the international community’s relief effort for the victims of Cyclome Nargis in Burma was losing millions of dollars to the regime’s foreign exchange controls. (more…)

Human Rights Watch is urging international donors to ensure that Burma’s military rulers do not divert humanitarian aid intended for victims of Cyclone Nargis. (more…)

The United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday convened a meeting of the ‘Group of Friends’ to review the situation in Burma and to discuss the ensuing visit of his special envoy Ibrahim Gambari. (more…)

A frustrated Burmese friend in Rangoon said, “Naypyidaw will be a ‘pile of bones.’” If that popular saying has any real meaning behind it, the generals should be alarmed. (more…)

The June edition of the New Era Journal, a Burmese-language monthly published in Bangkok, carried a letter from an unnamed senior lawyer practicing in South Dagon, greater Rangoon. (more…)

The mother was holding her baby tightly under an umbrella, trying her best to guard him from the pouring rain. (more…)