Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi told US Senator Jim Webb on Saturday that “interaction” must first be established inside the country, according to her lawyer. (more…)

Myanmar’s government-controlled newspapers on Tuesday lauded the visit of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, who secured the high-profile release of a jailed American, as “the first step” toward improving relations with Washington. (more…)

The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) authorities have been preparing a military training programme for civilians of Matupi Township, in Chin State, western Burma. (more…)

Beginning this month, Burmese government authorities in Mon State have been increasing security measures and investigating Buddhist monks who are traveling – searching through their saffron robes and requiring them to open their bags. (more…)

In a fresh repressive measure the Burmese military junta has banned Kachins, an ethnic nationality, from constructing its cultural symbols – the “Manau Pole and Manau House” in their State, said Kachin cultural leaders. (more…)

Two young Rohingya migrants have died in the past three months in a detention camp in southern Thailand, the Bangkok English-language daily newspaper, The Nation, reported on Tuesday. (more…)

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army and Thai authorities have been cooperating with each other to send internally displaced people back to their country of origin. The IDPs fled to neighbouring Thailand because of clashes in their area. (more…)

A Thai government proposal for a request by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to the Burmese junta to pardon Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to be discussed at a meeting of senior Asean officials in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and Thursday. (more…)

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed a U.S. senator’s success in winning the release of an American jailed in Myanmar and meeting with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

OTTAWA — A Saskatoon man was told Saturday he will not be deported to his native Myanmar after two federal government ministers intervened directly in the case. (more…)

SENATOR JIM WEBB of Virginia was acting as an advocate for a more accommodating US policy toward Burma’s despotic junta during his weekend visit to that country. But the folly of his project became obvious when the regime’s numero uno, General Than Shwe, rewarded Webb with the release of an American who received a seven-year sentence for swimming to the house where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has long been held under house arrest – but not the freedom of that brave and dignified woman. (more…)

John William Yettaw has been released from Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, where hundreds of the country’s political prisoners are currently detained while dozens sacrificed their lives in the past two decades. (more…)

Senator Mr Jim Webb, Chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has just completed his visit to Myanmar. Mr Yettaw went along with Mr Jim Webb to be home. The Senator’s tour of Myanmar was welcomed and recognized both locally and globally as a successful visit that helps deepen the relations between the US and Myanmar and reflects Myanmar’ s magnanimity and consideration. (more…)