Six months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into army-ruled Myanmar, killing more than 130,000 people, many in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta continue to rely on handouts to stay alive. (more…)

The latest risk to the population of the Delta, the most densely populated area of the country, is a lack of drinking water. Immediately after the cyclone, most people relied on monsoon rain for safe water. But now the dry season is coming, and despite an enormous effort to clean up drinking water ponds, many are still unfit for consumption. (more…)

Burma’s military junta has published bilingual copies of the country’s new constitution – in both Burmese and English. (more…)

The Myanmar authorities have allotted land for 35 more local and foreign information technology companies to work in northern Myanmar’s new Yadanabon Myothit cyber city, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. (more…)

Bangladesh says it will send diplomats to Burma to try to resolve a territorial dispute between the two nations in the Bay of Bengal. (more…)

Four Bangladeshi woodcutters were shot dead after trespassing into neighboring Burma, a security official said, amid an escalating row over gas and oil between the two nations. (more…)

Burma’s export earnings are likely to suffer a decline in the current fiscal year, largely resulting from a negative global economic outlook, according to analysts. (more…)

Baron Levene of Portsoken’s 45-year career has been a procession of glittering achievements. The son of an antique dealer from north-west London, Peter Levene has been adviser to one Prime Minister and a number of senior government figures. And such is his unalloyed reputation among City grandees that the 66-year-old Chelsea fan became Lord Mayor of London in 1998. (more…)

For most of the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the annual monsoon rains that have lashed Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta for the last six months only compounded the misery. (more…)

Ten fishermen from Aceh have been sentenced to five years in prison by a Myanmar court for allegedly fishing in the country’s waters on Feb. 8 this year, a relative of one of the detainees said Friday. (more…)

Pope Benedict XVI says he is ready to make a stopover in Myanmar if he visits another Asian country, Archbishop Charles Maung Bo of Yangon told UCA News in Rome. (more…)

Burma’s military junta has invited United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari to visit the country either in the last week of November or early next month, according to UN sources. (more…)

Activists opposing who military-run junta will lose a powerful ally in January when first lady Laura Bush moves out of the White House. (more…)

Chevron has quietly removed from its website any reference to its operations in Burma, a country where the oil giant has been implicated in allegations of rape and murder connected to a lucrative pipeline project that generates up to $1 billion annually for the country’s brutal military regime, the Amazon Defense Coalition said today. (more…)