Livelihoods will prove a key component of the overall recovery effort in the months to come. This woman travels to Labutta to sell vegetables to make ends meet after Cyclone Nargis, a disaster that left close to 140,000 people dead or missing (more…)

NLD Central Executive Committee member U Win Tin complained to the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) of Burma that a DPA report about an alleged interview with him was incorrect. The FCC investigated the case by questioning the DPA’s Rangoon reporter on January 8, resulting in reporter Ko Ko (RIT)’s admission of wrong reportage. (more…)

A North Korean who was believed to be a weapon specialist working in a secret research facility in central Burma has died on the way to Meikhtila military hospital after suffering a serious headache. (more…)

Pro-regime groups in Mon State are being ordered to prepare for the upcoming 2010 election, though groups that do not support the government continue to be left in the dark about election details. (more…)

Freezing temperatures have hit residents of Burma’s mountainous eastern and western border areas, making life tougher for marginalized ethnic minorities and many of the country’s political prisoners. (more…)

The new Bangladesh government wants to engage neighbours India and Myanmar to demarcate maritime boundaries in the Bay of Bengal to be able to file its claim before the United Nations by 2011, a media report said on Friday. (more…)

The Thai military has taken into custody another group of asylum-seekers from Burma’s Rohingya minority. (more…)

Refugees along Thailand’s border with Myanmar will be able to continue to plan their families thanks to cooperation between UNHCR and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (more…)

Thailand’s military has denied abusing refugee boat-people from Myanmar after claims some were whipped on a tourist beach and hundreds more left dead or missing after being towed at to sea without food and water. (more…)

India’s Vice President Hamid Ansari is set to visit neighbouring military-ruled Burma, in a bid to further strengthen bilateral cooperation between both countries, according to reports. (more…)

Myanmar will hold an annual gem show here in March this year to encourage national gem traders to sell more quality gems, jade, pearl and jewelry, according to the Central Committee for Holding Myanmar Gems Emporium Friday. (more…)

The weblog of venerable Burmese Buddhist monk, Ashin Mettacara, has bagged the “Best Asia Blog” award for 2008. (more…)

The United States slapped additional sanctions against alleged key financial backers of the Myanmar military regime Thursday, citing the country’s imprisonment of democracy advocates. (more…)