[Suu Kyi] is refusing food supplies in protest against … her unlawful detention under the security law. – The National League for Democracy

The political party of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged Burma’s military government Friday to ensure her well-being as she continued to refuse food deliveries to protest her detention. (more…)

The abbot of Marlayon monastery in Than Lyin township’s Bogyoke village is being held after a raid on the monastery earlier today, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. (more…)

A directive has been sent by the state Sangha Maha Nayaka committee to monasteries and lecturing colleges in Chauk, Magwe division, ordering monks not to take part in political activities. (more…)

Ko Tin Myo Htut, a former political prisoner and current member of the underground activist group Generation Wave, has been detained by government authorities, according to a spokesperson for the group. (more…)

Local authorities in the Irrawaddy delta have been siphoning off humanitarian assistance meant for refugee communities and have been selling on the relief supplies for substantial profits, according to several sources in the cyclone-ravaged delta. (more…)

An exiled Burmese dissident who recently traveled back to his troubled homeland said that the purpose of his visit was to gain a better understanding of the economic and humanitarian challenges facing the country, not to talk politics. (more…)

Recent assessments by the World Health Organization (WHO) rain praise on the Burmese government’s emergency response following May’s Cyclone Nargis, as well as upon ongoing relief efforts conducted in conjunction with international actors. (more…)

Sales have plummeted in shops in Rangoon after local Burmese junta authorities ordered closure of business establishments by 11 p.m. Earlier, the shops remained open till late at night. (more…)

Intent on stocking up on rations for the Burmese Army, the military junta is forcibly buying paddy at reduced prices from farmers before the agricultural community can harvest the crop at the end of the season in November. The paddy collection drive is on in villages in Waingmaw Township in Kachin State in northern Burma, complained local farmers. (more…)

The British foreign office has issued an advisory warning it staff not to use flights operated by Myanmar Airways, Burma’s state-owned domestic air carrier, because of the airline’s failure to meet international safety standards. (more…)

Political tensions are running high in Thailand, with demonstrators from the People’s Alliance for Democracy calling for the resignation of the government led by Samak Sundaravej. (more…)

Even though it is not yet clear whether Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has staged any form of strike against the failure to bring change to the country’s repressive regime, the international community must take the signals sent so far seriously. And it must try to act on it more thoughtfully than it has over the past many years. (more…)

Implications for India’s External Relations
Ryan Clarke is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has previously resided and conducted research in South and Southeast Asia. (more…)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, general secretary of the National League for Democracy, is the daughter of General Aung San, the founding father of Burma’s armed forces, a selfless architect of independence that enabled Burma to become a sovereign nation, and a martyr of the nation who gave his life for the country and the people. (more…)

Malayone monastery, located in Rangoon?s Thanlin Township, was raided early this morning by 23 unidentified men who were believed to be military intelligence personnel. (more…)