Pauk Taw – A new political party the Amyo Thar ye party, National party, has distributed some pamphlets in Burmese regarding its party policy among Arakanese people for the 2010 election, said a village elder from Pauk taw Township. (more…)

New Delhi  – 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…)

Agartala – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday demanded the formation of a Northeast Security Council (NSC) to tackle the region’s twin challenges of terrorism and infiltration. (more…)

YANGON – The Myanmar Ministry of Health, with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO), will immunise more than seven million children against polio.
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YANGON (Kyodo) Japanese tourists who visited Myanmar in the first nine months of 2008 declined 68 percent compared with the same period in 2007, official figures showed Thursday. (more…)

A Thai government decision to suspend registration of new migrants for one year has come under fire from Thai non-government organizations.
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Despite our small economy and still modest technological capabilities, we have made some significant progress in enhancing South-South economic and technical cooperation to help reduce the divides between nations, in particular among developing economies. (more…)

Washington – A top aide to US President George W Bush said on Wednesday that he hoped the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama would continue to push for democracy and protection of human rights in Burma. (more…)

UNITED NATIONS – Two days before Christmas, Myanmar’s mission to the UN got a gift with no strings attached. In the dimly-lit Indonesia Lounge next to the General Assembly chamber, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative Joy Ogwu handed her counterpart from Myanmar Kyaw Tint Swe a check for $500,000. This was Nigeria’s response to the UN’s plea for funds to continue to respond to Cyclone Nargis, which hit in May. The UN has been exposed, first by Inner City Press, for allowing the military government of Myanmar to take 25% of aid funds through currency exchange. Nigeria gave its money directly, in U.S. dollars, and apparently with no requirement to report back on how the funds are used. (more…)

It wasn’t the most propitious start to the life of a man who, in the years to come, was to become a powerful Communist leader in the world’s largest democracy. But in the autumn of 1948, when he was barely six months old, Prakash Karat fled his birthplace-Letpadan, 100 miles north of the Burmese capital, Rangoon-in a truck, to escape advancing Communist insurgents. It was the year Burma, now Myanmar, gained independence from the British on January 4, only to be engulfed in successive insurgencies by the Red Flag Communists and the White Flag Communists, led by army rebels calling themselves the Revolutionary Burma Army. (more…)

Vast areas of the Pacific Ocean will be protected as national monuments, thanks to an 11th-hour proclamation by President Bush. Score one more for Laura Bush. (more…)

Yangon – The availability of vegetables in Myanmar is less than 50 percent the recommended daily dietary intake of vegetables (300 g/day). An FAO assisted project provides the platform to highlight this key issue and initiating remedial action at national level. (more…)