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…)

YANGON – Army-ruled Myanmar urged Western countries on Thursday to lift economic sanctions and allow the country to modernize and achieve its democratic goals. (more…)

Around 10,000 acres of rice paddy fields located alongside one of Burma’s major rivers have been destroyed after weeks of heavy rainfall caused extensive flooding in central Burma. (more…)

You could say it runs in the family—45-year-old Saw Lubermoo’s grandmother and grandfather were IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), his parents were IDPs, and now he is an IDP. (more…)

Human rights activists have lodged an appeal with the National Human Rights Commission asking it to investigate the deaths of two Rohingya illegal immigrants held in Ranong. (more…)

Jakarta — Senior Asian officials met in Indonesia on Thursday to discuss issuing an unprecedented call for amnesty for Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, Indonesia’s foreign ministry said. (more…)

New Delhi – Pakistan’s Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday came down heavily on Burma’s military junta for sentencing opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urged its government to severe diplomatic ties unless Burma releases the Noble Peace Laureate. (more…)

Amid outrage and also frustration over Myanmar’s decision to extend the house detention of the frail democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned world leaders against squandering an “opportunity for change” in the military-ruled country when it holds elections next year. (more…)

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — John Yettaw, the recently released prisoner of the military junta in Myanmar who illegally swam across a lake there in early May and set off a bizarre international spectacle, arrived here Wednesday night, fatigued and apparently unrepentant. (more…)

New Delhi – Campaigners say now is the time for the international community, particularly the United Nations, to call on the Security Council to establish a commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Burma’s military rulers. (more…)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is guilty and her sentence is three years hard labor. That was the judgment handed down by a court in the compound of the notorious Insein Prison on August 11th, 2009.   As a result, the military regime in Burma may believe that it has fulfilled its aim of excluding her and the pro-democracy forces from the country’s political process. (more…)

The horrors of World War II should have shocked humanity into rejecting violence and wars forever, and ushered in an era of peace. Yet we continue to see countless abuses and crimes, in some instances, amounting to genocide because those who can prevent these crimes did little or nothing. (more…)

The Burmese military regime has shown itself as an advocate of human rights by releasing the American intruder, John W Yettaw, and is promoting bilateral relations with the US by hosting Senator Jim Webb, Burma’s leading state-run newspaper said on Wednesday. (more…)