Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer has requested another meeting with her to discuss an appeal against her detention, amid repeated international calls for her release, her party’s spokesman said Friday. (more…)

A court in military-ruled Myanmar handed down prison sentences Friday to six opposition party members who were arrested after last year’s pro-democracy demonstrations, a party spokesman said. (more…)

Burma’s oldest and largest ethnic rebel group, the Karen National Union (KNU), strongly condemned the ruling junta’s state constitution, calling it a reactionary throwback to the country’s age of imperialism. (more…)

Win Tin, a prominent member of Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), said he and the party would welcome a visit by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, but added that he had strong reservations about what the UN head could hope to achieve in Burma. (more…)

All Burma Federation of Student Unions leader Si Thu Maung was charged under with unlawful association and crimes against state tranquility at Tamwe township court on Wednesday. (more…)

Chin villagers in northern Chin state, Burma are being terrorized and tortured by insurgent groups from Manipur state in northeast India operating on Burmese soil, it is learnt. (more…)

Burmese Prime Minister General Thein Sein has said trade with China has risen by sixty percent over the last three years, despite a campaign of stringent trade sanctions against the Southeast Asian country led by the United States. (more…)

Two men and two women were arrested for being in possession of drugs in Maungdaw by joint security forces in a raid on Wednesday, said a police officer from Maungdaw on condition of anonymity. (more…)

The United States on Thursday marked the 13th anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest by renewing its call for Myanmar’s military rulers to swiftly release the pro-democracy leader. (more…)

Amnesty International is urging the European Union to raise concerns about Burma’s human rights situation during the Europe-Asia summit in Beijing this week. (more…)

The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) called this week on the international community to build on relations with Burma’s military regime in the wake of coordinated efforts made following the Cyclone Nargis disaster. (more…)

Accelerated by the current global financial crisis and with potentially grave repercussions for Burma’s democratic opposition, the world may be witnessing a relative weakening in liberal-democratic values as political power shifts from North America and Europe to Asia, speculates one Burmese expert. (more…)

Is it time to “normalise aid relations” with Burma’s notoriously closed and paranoid military dictatorship? According to the International Crisis Group (ICG), it might be. (more…)