Burma’s military government appeared to be bracing itself last night for a wave of pro-democracy protests – possibly even rioting – in advance of a verdict due this week in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

After a series of delays, a verdict is expected Tuesday in the case of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader who faces up to five years in prison on a charge of violating the terms of the house arrest under which she has been held for 14 of the past 20 years. (more…)

The delays in the court proceeding against Aung San Suu Kyi are caused by disagreements within the military regime over how severely to punish her, according to Burmese army sources. (more…)

The U.S. man on trial in Myanmar alongside Aung San Suu Kyi was Monday night discharged from the hospital where he had been recovering from epileptic seizures, an official source said. (more…)

Latest reports of the Burma Army’s four-cut campaign said that a Shan woman from Shan State South’s Laikha township was gang raped in front of her husband by the Burma Army that has been waging a four-cut campaign since late July. (more…)

India’s coast guard detained a “suspicious” North Korean cargo ship after a six-hour chase off the country’s southeastern coast, a coast guard official said Saturday, but a preliminary search of the vessel revealed it was carrying sugar and not illicit cargo. (more…)

Tension is high between the Burmese military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a Kokang ceasefire group, following an attempted drug raid by some 70 Burmese troops on the house of the Kokang group’s chairman on Saturday, according to sources in the area. (more…)

As the day the verdict is set to be handed down on Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi nears, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan has expressed hope the judgment would lead to “stability, reconciliation and calm.” (more…)

With Myanmar’s military government expected to sentence famed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi to further detention as early as Tuesday, some of her exiled supporters are considering new tactics to break a decades-old political stalemate in the troubled Southeast Asian nation. (more…)

Dreams of revolution die hard in the silences of this city’s monsoon-soaked streets. (more…)

Twenty years after she was first put under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi is still the inspiration of Burma’s would-be opposition. (more…)

Delays in the trial of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi have fuelled the rumour mill about what the secretive junta is really up to as elections draw closer. (more…)

While there is no hard evidence to demonstrate that the Burmese regime in Naypyidaw has been seeking to acquire or develop nuclear weapons, the circumstantial evidence is worrying when North Korea’s track record is taken into account. (more…)

The following are the questions raised by the attendees and answers given by Chief of the Myanmar Police Force in the press conference on clarification of measures for State security and the rule of law. (more…)