Yangon – Myanmar’s junta allowed an FM-radio service to open in the Rakhine State for the first time last week and plans to open similar services nationwide by July, government officials confirmed Monday.
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A Rohingya elder was arrested by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) for possessing a mobile charger in Maungdaw Township, a close relative of the victim said. (more…)

Bangladesh will protest against Myanmar’s [Burma's] barbed-wire fencing just 13m off no man’s land in its territory as international laws bar any installation so close to no man’s land, said the foreign secretary, Touhid Hossain, on Sunday [29 March]. (more…)

A labor rights group on Monday condemned the Thai government for denying Burmese migrants access to a workers compensation fund through Thailand’s Social Security Office. (more…)

Garment factories are downsizing their operations in the midst of decreased foreign orders and looking to the local market to fill up the gaps, according to the local CMP (cutting, manufacturing and packaging) factory owners in the second week of March.
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India’s Tata Group Looks at Truck Factory in Burma
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A state-run Chinese TV station in Yunnan Province broadcast news on Wednesday concerning detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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A leading campaigner has claimed that the deal signed last week for the construction of a gas pipeline between China and Burma will lead to land confiscation and will hold no benefit for Burma. (more…)

The European Union Special Envoy (EUSE), Mr. Piero Fassino, paid a three day visit to Bangkok where he met Thai Government representatives and relevant partners and stakeholders. (more…)

Recent diplomatic efforts by the Burmese government appear to signal a move towards improving ties with the new US administration, a former ambassador to the Burmese embassy in Washington said. (more…)

Burma campaigners have hailed a landmark judgment announced last week that has so far gone largely unnoticed. (more…)

Myanmar junta chief Than Shwe urged political parties to shun foreign ideologies if they want democracy as the military put on a show of might at its annual parade Friday. (more…)

Burma’s main opposition party repeated its calls for the ruling junta to begin a dialogue with its opponents and release all political prisoners during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of an important event in the country’s military history. (more…)

Myanmar’s military junta is open to talks with the United States, its information minister said after a rare visit by a top U.S. diplomat amid a review of Washington’s policy towards the regime. (more…)

A lone demonstrator in Twante Township, Rangoon was arrested by the police on Friday, an eyewitness said. (more…)

A powerful explosion at dawn on March 19 in Lashio, the capital of Shan State North, left a one and-a-half feet wide and two feet deep crater, according to sources coming to the Sino-Burma border. (more…)

The key decision making body of the primary political party representing Mon people has agreed to meet with the SPDC general charged with organizing Burma’s ethnic armed groups for the coming 2010 election. The plan for talks follow a quiet meeting between the groups following the Mon party’s announced refusal to join the election. (more…)

CHINA said on Friday that it had signed a contract with Myanmar to build cross border oil and gas pipelines, a move which will enable energy-thirsty Beijing to slash the journey time for crude oil imports. (more…)

India’s leading automaker TATA Motors on Thursday met Burmese Minister of Energy (2) Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, and held parleys on setting up a truck manufacturing unit in Burma, the state-run media said. (more…)

The United Nations on Friday condemned what it called systematic human rights violations in Myanmar and urged the ruling military junta to release all its political prisoners, believed to number 2,100. (more…)