Sao Yawdserk, the leader of the Shan State (SSA) South, at war with Burma’s military rulers, has warned Thailand of more asylum seekers unless the regional grouping ASEAN gives a down-to-earth interpretation of its cardinal policy of non-interference. (more…)

New Delhi – Burma’s Censor Board has relaxed its stringent rules and allowed two Rangoon based weekly journals to quote the spokesman of the main opposition party the ‘National League for Democracy’ (NLD). (more…)

Persecuted and oppressed in Burma, Rohingya Muslims are fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. Starving and stateless, they live in squalid makeshift camps. And yet, as Cyrus Shahrad discovers, they have not lost hope. (more…)

The Immigration Bureau has allowed visitors rare access to Rohingya immigrants transferred from Ranong. (more…)

Jakarta – Senior South-East Asian officials recommended Friday that their foreign ministers issue a joint appeal to Myanmar’s military rulers for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an Indonesian official said. (more…)

A key leader of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), the junta-backed mass organization, Maj-Gen Htay Oo, who is also the minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, is on an official visit to Japan, the first Burmese senior official to visit the East Asia nation in four years. (more…)

A top US diplomat said Friday Washington was monitoring Myanmar’s stated commitment to enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea, after reports of possible nuclear cooperation between the Asian nations. (more…)

When former US President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea earlier this month to win the release of two imprisoned American journalists, he probably didn’t realize that he was setting a trend. But less than two weeks after his high-profile visit to Pyongyang, another US politician had embarked on a similar—but even more ambitious—mission. (more…)

Every country has their internal issues, many or few, to be addressed politically. Maybe a developed country with strong economy has only few such internal issues, but there is no country that does not have such issues. A developing country with racial issues and border incidents has a large number of internal issues to address. It is usual for a country to do so, and this concept remains true. (more…)

Burma’s exiled prime minister explains how Aung San Suu Kyi is dealing with her sentence—and argues that, as long as the junta is around, Burma has no hope. (more…)