Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has denied a report in the regime’s official newspaper that the party’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is refusing to meet the minister charged with liaising between her and the government. (more…)

Thirty-five members of the 88 Generation Students group appeared in court on Tuesday. However, the case was adjourned because of the late hour after the activists had delayed proceedings by arguing against being handcuffed and calling for a public trial. (more…)

The politically motivated arrests and imprisonments have dramatically increased in Burma.
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Gen. Yar Pyay, the Shan State military commander has said that ceasefire groups and local militia groups have to surrender in 2009 before the 2010 elections. He  said this at a meeting with government servants in Ho Mueng. The meeting was held in the middle of August, said a border news source from Mae Hong Song. (more…)

Chief Reporter Saw Myint Than of the ‘Flower News’ journal was prosecuted by the Kyauktada Township police for reporting the double murder case. (more…)

From her makeshift hut along the highway between Pyanpon and Bogale townships in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Yee Yee looks to the motorway. “Whenever I hear the sound of a car, I think it might be someone coming to help,” the 56-year-old said. (more…)

The Burmese authorities were by far the greatest providers of medical assistance to its population after cyclone Nargis despite the widespread international criticism of a poor response by the military junta, according to an analysis released on Wednesday. (more…)

The Burma Lawyers’ Council has demanded that the junta abolish state law 20/90 on religious organisations and stop the practice of forcibly disrobing monks and trying them at civil courts. (more…)

Trade at the Thai-Burmese border has recently been hit by a series of setbacks-the devaluation of the Burmese currency, a landslide on the main highway from Myawaddy, and a tightening of trade restrictions by the Burmese authorities. (more…)

As the international media continues to follow the tense situation in Thailand closely, the censors in neighboring Burma have imposed a blackout on coverage of massive anti-government protest in Bangkok, according to journalists in Rangoon. (more…)

A ceremony to grant the Freedom of Dundee to Aung San Suu Kyi is set to take place in the city. (more…)

After 13 years of detention, Aung San Suu Kyi perfectly represents the suffering of the Burmese people, effectively trapped in the world’s biggest prison. Pressure is building on the UN to act (more…)

The violent crackdown of the Saffron Revolution in September 2007 has added a deep notch in the scale of atrocities of the Burmese military rulers. It is true that the Saffron Revolution could not remove the regime from the power, but it has so badly wounded the regime that they will never be able to heal the scar. (more…)