Burma’s junta has relaxed some restrictions placed on the country’s democratically elected opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said today. (more…)

Eight people who have been held in Thayet prison for about a year were sentenced yesterday for political activities and contact with foreign media, their family members said. (more…)

A lawyer for Min Ko Naing, a leading figure from Burma’s nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988, said that the detained activist was defiant when he appeared in court at Rangoon’s Insein Prison on Tuesday. (more…)

Four ‘National League for Democracy’ (NLD) members from Yenanchaung, Chauk and Magwe of Magwe Division and seven people from Pakokku arrested in connection with the September unrest last year were sentenced to various prison terms ranging from two to nine years by Judge Daw Soe Soe Khet. (more…)

Two people were killed and nine seriously injured when two explosions occurred in Kyaukgyi town in Pegu division, Burma on Thursday evening. (more…)

Despite international pressure on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to stop recruiting and using child soldiers, the SPDC has been continuously violating child rights to recruit or use child soldiers in its army, according to a report from Sino-Burma border. (more…)

The Myanmar government says most residents were warned about approaching cyclone Nargis, but many failed to take appropriate measures or were simply caught off-guard. (more…)

Burmese military authorities have allowed rice traders to transport rice from Burma proper to Arakan State out of fear of public unrest if the rice price continued to increase this rainy season in Arakan. (more…)

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed frustration Thursday at the failure of Myanmar’s military government to open its political process and urged the junta to take “tangible steps” to include opponents like Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi’s refusal to accept food supplies led to a few small victories this week, but at what cost to the country’s future? The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was forced to threaten her health before the junta granted a few small concessions. (more…)

Myin Win was 11 years old when he was first recruited into Burma’s national army. He was picked up by soldiers while selling vegetables at a railway station and sent to a military training camp. He weighed only 70 pounds, or about 32 kilograms, and said that the guns were so heavy he could hardly lift them. (more…)