Villagers in areas of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy River Delta are living in “dire conditions” three months after Tropical Cyclone Nargis devastated the southern region, the United Nations said. (more…)

Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights on Wednesday met senior members of Burma’s main opposition party – National League for Democracy – and another major party – National Unity Party (NUP), sources said. (more…)

Sports columnist Zaw Thet Htwe, who was arrested for assisting cyclone victims in Burma ‘s Irrawaddy delta, was finally allowed to meet his family at notorious Insein prison on Tuesday. (more…)

The two remaining cyclone refugee camps in Laputta are to close on August 10, according to residents. (more…)

Tighter security imposed by Thai authorities prior to the visit of US first lady Laura Bush to Burmese refugees in Mae Sot, Thailand, has led to more checkpoints, arrests and deportation of Burmese illegal migrants. (more…)

Myanmar’s consumer price index rose nearly 33 percent in the 2007-2008 financial year, according to official statistics seen Wednesday. (more…)

Kuwait’s Prime Minister, Sheik Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Wednesday paid an official visit to Burma at the invitation of its premier, Gen. Thein Sein. (more…)

AN official from the Ministry of Health said last month that the incidence of malaria in areas of Ayeyarwady Division affected by cyclone Nargis was no higher than usual. (more…)

U.S. President George W. Bush flew into Bangkok on Wednesday on the latest leg of a pre-Olympics Asian tour, although his focus in Thailand is mainly on the “outpost of tyranny” junta in neighboring Myanmar. (more…)

Win Min has spent 20 years trying to recover a moment of hope in Myanmar, when it seemed that the people had defeated their brutal military rulers and freedom lay ahead. (more…)

Having worked in humanitarian relief in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, India and Angola, Canadian Andrew Kirkwood has seen his fair share of humanitarian disasters. But what he saw in Burma after Cyclone Nargis fanned across the southwestern part of the Asian country in May, killing 140,000 people and leaving one million others homeless, surpasses anything he’s seen in more than 10 years of relief work. (more…)

It has been three months since Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, leaving 130,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. (more…)

On Friday, millions of people will gather to celebrate universal values, national spirit, and the promise of progress in a country isolated for decades on the precipice of change. You might think of Aug. 8, 2008 in Beijing, but I’ll be remembering Aug. 8, 1988, in Burma, the day that changed my life and that of countless compatriots. (more…)

‘Monks and masses threaten military leaders’

Twenty years after the mass pro-democracy demonstrations brought Burma to a standstill for months and threatened to topple the country’s one-party state, it is tempting to believe Burma’s best chance for change is a thing of the past. More than a month later, in September 1988, the army moved against the protesters and crushed the democratic movement. (more…)

Some help is arriving in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, but for the Burmese the real disaster is a despotic government. (more…)