A pro-junta group, the 88 generation students (Union of Myanmar), has said it is all set to contest the upcoming 2010 general election as drawn up by the ruling junta. (more…)

An individual arrested while undertaking volunteer relief services for victims of Cyclone Nargis was yesterday sentenced to ten years imprisonment by a court in Rangoon’s outlying district of South Dagon. (more…)

A prominent Burmese political prisoner, Kyaw Ko Ko, who has been detained in Insein Prison since March 2008, was yesterday moved to the jail’s hospital suffering from jaundice, according to his family in Rangoon. (more…)

Weekly news journals in Burma have been ordered by the state censor board to publish articles criticising National League for Democracy members for staging a demonstration in Rangoon last week. (more…)

Elected members of parliament Dr Tin Min Htut and Nyi Pu appeared before Insein prison special court yesterday charged with sedition and disrupting the national convention. (more…)

Police in northern Ye Township are taxing migrant workers returning from Thailand and Malaysia, say local sources. (more…)

Myanmar’s trade surplus shrank in the first nine months of last year on lower exports of gas, according to official statistics. (more…)

MYANMAR received nearly 25 per cent fewer tourists through its main airport in 2008, official figures showed Tuesday, in a year when a deadly cyclone laid waste to vast swathes of the military-run nation. (more…)

Myanmar’s bilateral trade with Japan in the first nine months of 2008 declined 5.6 percent to $275.98 million, compared to $292.33 million in the same period of 2007, official statistics showed Tuesday. (more…)

The Union Solidarity and Development Association in Rangoon division is offering agricultural loans to local farmers for this year’s harvest, but some farmers claim the move is intended to secure votes in the 2010 election. (more…)

Vice-presidents of Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry U Zaw Min Win, U Aung Lwin, U Thaung Tin and U Mya Han, general secretary U Sein Win Hlaing, central executives, executives received a trade delegation led by Mr Gao Zhengwu, Division Chief of Department of Commerce -of Yunnan Province of People’s Republic of China on 31 December 2008 at the headquarters of the federation. (more…)

A report in a weekly Burmese magazine said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) plans to continue its polio vaccination program in Burma this year. (more…)

BDR personnel seized 2 kgs of heroin from two buses on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway on Monday and yesterday. (more…)

The fire that broke out in a Bangkok nightclub, Thailand on New Year’s eve, being celebrated with fireworks, left 64 dead including a Burmese citizen. (more…)

Dictatorships are not known for their sense of humour, nor do they appreciate being laughed at. It came as no surprise then when the ruling military regime in Burma recently sentenced the country’s best known comedian, named Zarganar, to 45 years in prison. (more…)

News reports from Rangoon suggest that Burma’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi commemorated the country’s Independence Day alone at her house-but this time not so quietly. (more…)