Mya Than Htike, a National League for Democracy youth member who was hit by a bullet when government troops opened fire on protestors last year, has been sentenced to four years in prison. (more…)

Political prisoner Aung Zaw Oo was forced to stand trial at Kyauktada township court despite his pleas to be tried at a later date, according to a friend of the detainee. (more…)

An eye doctor has visited Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home, where she has been detained for most of the past two decades, her party said on Friday. (more…)

Burma’s 75-year-old leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, is undergoing medical treatment at his Rangoon residence near Tooth Relic Pagoda in Mayangone Township, says a source close to the junta chief’s family. (more…)

A year after the saffron revolution, Buddhist monks are still finding it extremely difficult to travel in Burma because the Burmese military junta authorities are checking them thoroughly all the time, a source said. (more…)

A Thai Life Insurance Company is likely to pay compensation of Baht 100,000 for each of the 54 Burmese nationals who died of asphyxiation in a ten-wheel container truck in Ranong district, southern Thailand while sneaking into Thailand illegally. (more…)

The only motorable road connecting Bangladesh with the western border of Burma was blocked on Wednesday after heavy rains caused a landslide in the area, said a local businessman. (more…)

The Japan External Trade Organization, known as JETRO, has ended its “hold” warning to Japanese companies made after the 2007 Burmese military crackdown, sources say. (more…)

Clean drinking water is becoming ever scarcer in Burma’s cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta as the country heads into the dry season. (more…)

The United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay on Thursday urged Burma’s military junta to free all political prisoners. The junta released seven political prisoners recently. (more…)

Let’s imagine a situation: Burma without Aung San Suu Kyi. Undoubtedly, the ruling generals would see this as a dream come true. But for the majority of Burmese, it would come as a great disappointment to lose the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement. (more…)

It was indeed a historic court ruling. But much still needs to be done to save ethnic migrant workers from slave-like working conditions in Thailand. (more…)

A recent flurry of high-level contacts between North Korea and Myanmar raises new nuclear proliferation concerns between the two pariah states, one of which already possesses nuclear-weapon capabilities and the other possibly aspiring. (more…)