A doctor visited Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, witnesses said, two months after her refusal of food supplies sparked concerns that she was malnourished. (more…)

Appeal for recently sentenced Mandalay division National League for Democracy leaders and members has been rejected by the divisional court, according to their lawyer. (more…)

Prominent Burmese opposition leader Win Tin on Monday congratulated the citizens of the United States for electing Barack Obama as president. At the same time, he said that Burma too was in need of “regime change.” (more…)

Of the 4,000 schools damaged or destroyed when Cyclone Nargis hit the Ayeyarwady Delta in May, almost half have been restored. (more…)

Myanmar stopped oil and gas exploration in deep-sea blocks in disputed waters in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, a day after Bangladesh asked China for help over the row, officials said. (more…)

Another 500 ethnic Karen in eastern Burma were displaced in October alone, in the wake of fresh fire fights between rebel groups and Burmese Army soldiers, a Committee working for the displaced said. (more…)

Authorities in Myanmar have lifted a ban on rice exports imposed after Cyclone Nargis devastated swathes of crucial agricultural land in the southwest delta, an official said on Thursday. (more…)

A famous Myanmar private company has reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a South Korean company on construction of a bio-diesel plant in Myanmar. (more…)

The 4th Summit of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) closed in Hanoi on Thursday after issuing a joint statement. (more…)

Heated exchanges at last week’s Burma Day conference in Brussels continue to reverberate, with two leading participants locked in a dispute over charges of undemocratic and “fascist” behavior. (more…)

The United Nations should not accept a recent invitation to visit Burma, says Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) vice-chairman Nai Ngwe Thein. Instead, Gambari should visit the country according to his own schedule, including meetings with opposition leaders. (more…)

Burmese pro-democracy groups, especially along Burma’s borders and abroad, are in crisis. And the crisis recently got worse as the exile government NCGUB along with some other Burmese groups didn’t endorse the failed credential campaign at the UN filed by an alliance of exile groups, namely the NCUB led by Maung Maung. (more…)

The international community keeps eyeing the political turmoil in military-ruled Burma. Understandably, neighbors better understand. Let us analyze why India seemingly has a lukewarm interest in the Burmese democratic movement? (more…)

Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win visited North Korea on Oct. 27 to hold the first high-level meeting since diplomatic relations were severed 25 years ago. When the two countries normalized diplomatic relations in April 2007, the reaction was largely twofold: banal and alarmist. (more…)

1. The All Burma Monks’ Alliance (ABMA) and the 88 Generation Students, two prominent organizations working to restore freedom and democracy in Burma, today issued a joint statement welcoming the report, submitted by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the General Assembly on October 20, 2008 on the situation of human rights in Burma. (more…)