National League for Democracy leaders have been told by Burma’s police chief to retract a statement they issued on 18 September calling on the authorities to form a constitutional review committee. (more…)

Witnesses say an explosion went off in Burma’s main city amid tight security to mark the one-year anniversary of the junta’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. (more…)

More than 7,000 police were deployed throughout Rangoon on Thursday in a security clampdown that followed a bomb blast near the former capital’s City Hall. (more…)

The sister of jailed Burmese human rights activist, Su Su Nway, said she has not been allowed to see her sister for two months by prison authorities. (more…)

Over 200 prisoners so far have been released from Sittwe prison in the last two days, but many are army and police deserters, said a source close to the prison. (more…)

Burma’s authorities said it would destroy 17 1/2 tons (16 metric tons) of powdered milk made by one of 22 Chinese dairy companies found to have produced chemically tainted products, a newspaper said Thursday. (more…)

One of the chief concerns among aid workers in the wake of Cyclone Nargis was polluted ponds, the only source of drinking water for many villagers. (more…)

The International Burmese Monks’ Organization (Bangladesh) staged a demonstration on Wednesday in front of the Burmese embassy in Dhaka demanding the release of monk leader U Gambira and other political prisoners. (more…)

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the release of seven political prisoners in Burma and reiterated the UN’s demand that all political prisoners be released. (more…)

He spoke against a noisy background of friends celebrating his release, but the Burmese journalist Win Tin – freed after spending more than 19 years in one of the world’s most notorious jails – said he was thinking of those he left behind. “I am free, but I would like to say that I feel very sorry for my colleagues who have died in the prison,” he said on a crackling phone line from Rangoon. (more…)

The surprise release of a number of prominent political prisoners on Tuesday, including one of Burma’s most famous detained dissidents, Win Tin, has many political pundits asking if the country’s supreme leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, is finally ready to make further concessions to placate his international critics. (more…)

If the Burmese people are to realize more auspicious times in the relatively near future, it will result from the sustained and directed efforts of various parties to the conflict, including Burma’s political opposition, the United Nations and China. (more…)

As the crowd marching through the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city swelled to 100,000, the question wasn’t what did they want, but when would the government crack down. (more…)

On the one-year anniversary of Burma’s Saffron Revolution, the International Burmese Monks Organization gives voice to the monks and nuns inside Burma who have been silenced by a cruel military dictatorship. We vow to keep the struggle for freedom and human rights alive in Burma. (more…)

Mizzima reporter Phanida interviewed the man who stepped out of prison in prison uniform, who refused to sign the bond pledging not to be involved in politics, who refused to be released on grounds of age and poor health, who wanted to be released only on the ground he deserved to be released, a person who was imprisoned for over 19 years, on his opinion on the media, politics and his personal feelings. (more…)