The Mahatma Gandhi prize was on Monday handed over to a representative of Myanmar’s imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi, an AFP correspondent said. (more…)

Myanmar has again cast a long shadow over Asean. Just as the grouping’s foreign ministers agreed on Sunday on the mechanics of the region’s first ever human rights body, the Myanmar military junta swooped in and jailed 50 pro-democracy activists in Yangon on the same day. (more…)

Authorities in military-run Myanmar detained dozens of opposition party members today as they returned from ceremonies marking the death of the father of jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said. (more…)

Military hardware, including weapons and ammunition is being transported to Puta-O (also called Putau in Kachin) district, Kachin State, in the northernmost region of Burma since last year by the military junta, said local sources. (more…)

Myanmar private garment industries are trying to get more garment orders from East Asian countries in the current fiscal year of 2009-2010 for the export of them, a local weekly reported Monday. (more…)

Phuket, Thailand – Thailand’s prime minister has defended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ plans for a human rights body. Abhisit Vejjajiva made the comments at the opening of ASEAN’s annual foreign ministers meeting. (more…)

MUMBAI, July 17 — Nearly six months after announcing a high-profile review of U.S. policy to Burma during a trip to Indonesia, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is returning to Asia without a new policy. (more…)

The United States and China will convene the first annual joint Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington on July 27-28, 2009. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will lead the U.S. delegation. Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo will lead the PRC delegation. (more…)

For half a century, Burma’s jungles and mountains have hosted a conflict where conventional weaponry has been traded for tactics designed to forever scar the ethnic population of the country. (more…)

Yangon – Illegal lotteries are growing in popularity in Myanmar, fuelled by a sense of hopelessness and exacerbating the widespread economic hardship, say aid workers. (more…)

Burma’s democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi met her legal team on Friday, to discuss the final arguments of her trial in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison. (more…)

Astrologers and soothsayers in Burma are reportedly being consulted by an increasing number of people who haven’t heard for months from family members of the Burmese army’s Electrical and Mechanical Engineering section working on the regime’s tunnel construction projects. (more…)

Flood, triggered by torrential rains, struck Myanmar’s Kayin state and Tanintharyi division, and a tornado also swept Ayeyawaddy division early this week, both causing great losses, the state newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Friday. (more…)

The price of goods exported from Thailand increased, as fewer goods from Thailand have been arriving in Moulmein, according to traders in Moulmein. (more…)

People along the Thai-Burma border staged a protest last week against a joint road project between a Thai firm and the Burmese Army, local sources said. (more…)

At least 10 children have died and several are ill after being afflicted by Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, in Kalemyo a town near the Indo-Burma border in Sagaing Division, north-western Burma, an official at a private clinic said. (more…)

North Korea’s nuclear programme and Myanmar’s rights record are set to dominate Asia’s largest security forum next week, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (more…)

ASEAN civil society organizations have highlighted Burma as a benchmark for ASEAN human rights issues and called for a strong Human Rights Body to place Burma on the agenda of the next ASEAN Summit. (more…)

A British diplomat Friday said the European Union would likely toughen sanctions on Myanmar’s military regime if pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty at her ongoing trial. (more…)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made no mention of Burma in her foreign policy speech in Washington this week, but she renewed the US offer to talk with the Iranian regime-but the offer and opportunity would not remain indefinitely, she warned. (more…)