RANGOON, Burma — Call it the evolutionary school of revolution. After years of brutally suppressed street protests, many Burmese have adopted a new strategy that they say takes advantage of small political openings to push for greater freedoms. They are distributing aid, teaching courses on civic engagement and quietly learning to govern. (more…)

Burma’s pro-democracy leader is seeking to have her regular physician, Tin Myo Win, reinstated as her primary doctor, following her return to her home after being sentenced to 18-months of house arrest. (more…)

Taungup: Unknown democratic activists in Taungup of Arakan State started distributing posters and pamphlets calling for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma, said an NLD member in the town. (more…)

The Burmese military junta plans to shift ethnic Kachin villages around the hydropower project area in the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River (also called Mali Hka River in Kachin) in Burma’s northern Kachin State, said local sources. (more…)

Latest reports from the Sino-Burma border say almost all of people in Laogai were reported to have been fleeing into China’s Mansan Township after receiving a typed announcement in Chinese by the Kokang leaders this morning. (more…)

New Delhi – At least three people have died and 329 people infected with dengue fever this year in Sittwe and Kyaukphyu of Arakan State in western Burma, according to information from the Ministry of Health. (more…)

TOKYO – SOME 300 Myanmar people held a rally in central Tokyo on Sunday, demanding the military junta release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest was extended this month. (more…)

John Yettaw, just back from his Burmese prison odyssey, explains how he unwittingly created an international diplomatic crisis. (more…)

Information leaking out of Burma raises suspicions of a clandestine nuclear program in cahoots with North Korea but there’s no solid evidence, a new study says. (more…)

As Burma’s state-run media continues to call on Washington to lift sanctions following the highly publicized visit of pro-engagement US Senator Jim Webb, a Western diplomat close to US officials says it is now up to the Burmese regime to make the next move. (more…)

PARIS — When a kangaroo court in Rangoon slapped an additional sentence on the already incarcerated pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the world winced. To be sure there was the perfunctory outrage, especially in Europe where French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the sentence on this Nobel laureate “a brutal and unjust verdict.” And the European Union presidency demanded her “immediate freedom without conditions.” (more…)

Burmese authorities have freed John Yettaw, who was convicted and sentenced following his uninvited visit to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house. In charges stemming from that incident, Ms. Suu Kyi was given an additional 18-month sentence, extending a detention that has lasted for much of the last 19 years.   (more…)