About 70 students from Sittwe university in Arakan state marched to the university on Monday in protest at the bus companies’ decision to stop services. (more…)

Zaw Naing Htway, the brother of detained 88 generation student leader Kyaw Kyaw Htway, has been sent to a prison work camp in Taung-ngu, Bago division, according to a source close to imprisoned activists. (more…)

The chairman of the National Unity Party (NUP), which replaced the Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP), said this week the party is ready to start campaign efforts in the 2010 general election, according to the Rangoon weekly, True News. (more…)

The Burmese military junta authorities on Tuesday released popular Hip Hop singer Yan Yan Chan, who was arrested in April 2008. (more…)

Christians in Burma’s former capital of Rangoon find themselves in a precarious state as local authorities on Monday banned the holding of regular church services and threatened to seal off churches if congregations failed to comply. (more…)

An explosion in an underground jade mine in Hpakant in Kachin state, northern Burma on December 31, 2008, at about 3 p.m. local time killed two miners and injured seven, said the owner of the mine. (more…)

Forests in northern Arakan state located near southern Chin State are being depleted due to illegal felling of timber from the area by the Burmese Army, said local reports. (more…)

U Nay Aung, a resident of Thauk Kyar village in Dedaye Township, is one of thousands of farmers across the cyclone-affected area who never gave up, succeeding after the fourth attempt to yield some harvest. (more…)

The mother-in-law of an armed Karen cease-fire group leader in Three Pagodas Pass has been released after a being kidnapped on Saturday. The leader’s wife is also unharmed after armed assailants fired on her as she escaped an earlier attempted kidnapping. (more…)

Myanmar’s export through border trade amounted to 666 million U.S. dollars in the first 11 months of 2008, an increase of 10 million dollars from the same period of 2007 which registered 656 million dollars, local media reported Wednesday, quoting the Ministry of Commerce. (more…)

India’s northeastern state of Mizoram has banned import of livestock and poultry from Burma as a precaution against bird flu virus spreading to the state, which has a long and porous border with military-ruled Burma. (more…)

A warrant officer from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 701, based in Hmawbi Township, Rangoon Division, was arrested for drug trafficking in late December, according to a source close to Rangoon Regional Military Command. (more…)

A group of 301 boat people from Myanmar on their way to Malaysia were found in Aceh on Tuesday night. (more…)