Prominent woman activist Nilar Thein, who went into hiding one year ago, was hunted down and arrested on Wednesday. (more…)

Burma’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had a one-hour meeting on Thursday at her home with her lawyer, Kyi Win, according to her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). (more…)

Police in Sittwe seized T-shirts emblazoned with the image of U Ottama and arrested people who were wearing the shirts in public, said a student in Sittwe on condition of anonymity. (more…)

Around 100 local monks rushed to the scene of a fire raging at Myoma market in Twante in Rangoon division on Tuesday night, but were forbidden by police from helping extinguish the blaze. (more…)

Detained protest leader Ko Htin Kyaw clashed with prison officials yesterday when he refused to appear in court, according to sources close to his family. (more…)

Over 1 million people in Myanmar’s storm-hit regions have been rescued in time, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar quoted Prime Minister General Thein Sein as saying Thursday. (more…)

A flourishing black labor market is bypassing a new government ban on the migration of women to seek work abroad, business sources in Rangoon report. Burmese authorities are involved in the illegal schemes, they allege. (more…)

The influx of donations and volunteer doctors after Cyclone Nargis has led to improvements in healthcare in hospitals in some areas of Irrawaddy division, locals said. (more…)

Two Burmese citizens were arrested on Wednesday in possession of 1,200 yaba tablets by Bangladesh police in Cox’s Bazar on the Burmese border. (more…)

The United States and Britain on Thursday called for more pressure on Myanmar to end its defiance of demands for democratic progress and the release of political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the United Nations Security Council should review UN mediation, which is being led by special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, and pressure the military government to yield results. (more…)

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will ask a committee to consider a request from the winners of Myanmar’s 1990 elections to replace the country’s current military junta representatives at the United Nations, the U.N. said Wednesday. (more…)

One day ahead of Thursday’s briefing by Special Adviser to Burma Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) said it expected Gambari’s report to be “more positive than after his March 2008 visit.” (more…)

The military dictators in Burma continue to provide good argument about why democracy, in the cliche’d phrase, is the worst possible political system except for all the others. The regime has become almost entirely closed off, and is unaccountable to citizens, neighbours and the world. It was good to hear from former prime minister Samak Sundaravej that Thailand will urge Burma to give in and accept the United Nations’ advice. (more…)

With the palpable frustration of Burma’s democratic opposition to United Nations efforts in Burma following the Special Envoy’s most recent visit, but scarce mechanisms through the international body appear left to opposition politicians and activists to alter the balance of power in the crisis stricken country. One however, is manifested in the current attempt to deny the junta their seat in the United Nations General Assembly as the legitimately recognized government of Burma. Could this happen? (more…)

Move Defies Security Council’s Call to Regime In Which It “emphasizes the importance of the early release of all political prisoners and remaining detainees”. (more…)