Stars shine by their own light and occupy the highest position in the sky. On clear, unclouded nights, you can look up and see them sparkling as bright as diamonds. (more…)

Yangon – Myanmar official media stressed on Friday that there shall be a single Tatmadaw (armed forces) in the country to stand in accordance with the new state constitution approved in May last year. (more…)

Ayeyarwady Delta, – Nine-year-old Chit Lin Nwe owes her life to a tree. As Cyclone Nargis swept away her home, family and friends in Aung Chan Thar village in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River Delta, she clung to its sturdy trunk.
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Chiang Mai – The Thai Labour and Human Rights Groups have submitted a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur Jorge A. Bustamante demanding an urgent investigation of the ‘Nationality Verification of Burmese Migrants’ in the Kingdom. (more…)

New Delhi – Unless the over 2,200 political prisoners languishing in prisons across the country are included among the prisoners being freed, the amnesty announced by the military rulers on Thursday would be meaningless, Amnesty International said. (more…)

Myanmar activists Friday called on Japan’s new government to take a tougher stance on the military junta as they rallied in Tokyo on the 21st anniversary of the coup that brought the regime to power. (more…)

Tokyo,– The new Japanese government should undertake a thorough review of Japan’s policies designed to promote human rights in Burma, Human Rights Watch said in a letter today to the newly inaugurated foreign minister, Katsuya Okada. (more…)

Myanmar’s military regime has doubled the number of political prisoners in the past two years and elections next year will have no credibility unless they are freed, Human Rights Watch said in a report. (more…)

Yangon- MYANMAR’S state media on Thursday defended the ruling junta’s decision to bar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi from court during final arguments in her appeal against her detention. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — Myanmar’s junta has granted amnesty to 7,114 convicts at prisons across the country, but it was not immediately known if they included political detainees. (more…)

Eight democracy activists including one Buddhist monk in Myingyan Township in Mandalay were detained by Burmese military authorities on Wednesday, according to local sources. (more…)

New Delhi – Unabated rat infestation continues to create acute food shortage for people in Chin state and northwest part of Burma, a new report said. (more…)

A United Nations relief agency is to resume work in the Kokang region of northeastern Burma after fierce fighting last month caused dozens of aid workers to flee. (more…)

Thirty-four Burmese separatists facing trial in India on gun-running charges have accused Indian military intelligence of double-crossing them.

The Burmese – all members of the National Unity Party of Arakan (NUPA) – have submitted signed judicial statements in support of their case. (more…)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today joined Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, at a Capitol Hill press conference to discuss a new Human Rights Watch report that highlights the surge of political prisoners in Burma. (more…)

Hong Kong, China — Last year, amid the death and debris in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, Burma got a new Constitution. Now people inside and outside the country are readying themselves for a general election of some sort, followed by the opening of a new Parliament, which is when the charter will take effect.
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After 16 days of being an ammunition porter on the frontline with Burmese military government troops, Aung Naing was reunited with his parents recently at Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai-Burmese border. (more…)

The Burmese government has selected more than 300 proxy candidates to run in the general election in 2010. (more…)

More than five million methamphetamine pills have been found by anti-drugs police in a cave in Shan state in northeastern Burma, state-run media reported today. (more…)

Washington — President Obama has made no changes to the annual U.S. list of major illicit drug producers and transit countries. (more…)