The junta sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) in northern Burma has claimed it will definitely win the 2010 elections in Burma. This was declared by a senior leader, said local people. (more…)

Detained members of the 88 Generation Students Group will refuse to cooperate with the court at their trial unless family members are allowed to attend, their lawyers have announced. (more…)

The Burmese regime’s assumption of control over cyclone relief efforts and the arrests of several activist aid volunteers would have a direct affect on future humanitarian work, according to the cyclone relief committee of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). (more…)

Burmese troops in Mandalay division are said to have abducted 19 people and forced them to join the army, according to one of those who managed to escape. (more…)

Four people were killed and two others were injured on Friday when lighting struck in a village of Naypyidaw, the capital of Burma. (more…)

Thai soldiers have tightened security along the border after Burmese troops opened fire on Karen rebels in areas opposite Umphang and Phop Phra districts yesterday. (more…)

PetroVietnam’s affiliates – Exploration and Production Corp. (PVEP) and VietsovPetro (VSP) – will get involved in oil ands gas exploitation in block M-2 offshore Myanmar. (more…)

Melamine contaminated hazardous milk powder to the tune of 16 tons were burnt in Burma, the ministry of health said. (more…)

The vice-chairman of Myanmar’s military junta is scheduled to make a three-day official visit to Bangladesh, a foreign ministry official said Monday. (more…)

Political obstruction and lack of access to affected areas have blocked U.N. efforts to end recruitment of child soldiers in Burma. (more…)

Chin communities, churches and individuals across the globe welcomed DFID’s ‘philanthropic’ responses to the devastating food crisis that has been facing the Chin people in Burma’s Chin State since late 2006. (more…)

I am a Burmese Buddhist monk, and I am in exile. One year ago in September, the Burmese regime brutally crushed peaceful protests in my country. I was one of the monks who helped lead these protests, now known as the Saffron Revolution. The world focused on my country then, but a year later that focus has faded. (more…)

It is not often you meet someone who tells you that he is from “a people at the brink of extermination.” But the testimonies from refugees in a remote corner of southern Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, justify that assessment. For the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority in northern Arakan State, western Burma, are a stateless people whose very identity is denied. (more…)

The last demand set out in the National League for Democracy’s 27 September statement was the right to freedom of organisation, existence and movement for political parties. (more…)

Two human rights organizations released a new report today detailing that the number of political prisoners held by Burma’s military junta has nearly doubled over the past year even after the UN Security Council demanded in October 2007 that the junta release all political prisoners, including the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)