Bangkok – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met a government minister in Rangoon in the third such meeting since the beginning of October. (more…)

New Delhi – A senior official of the United Nations, Dr. Ajay Chhibber during a five-day visit to Burma reiterated the World Body’s commitment to support ongoing and future development programmes aimed at the upliftment of the poor and the needy. (more…)

Burmese troops are abducting villagers near to the Burma-Bangladesh border and forcing them to work on the construction of a border fence, an Arakan local has reported. (more…)

Maungdaw: About 600 Burmese soldiers from Military Operation Planning Bureau, or Sakhaka, 15 based in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan’s capital Sittwe, arrived on the western Burmese border in the early morning on Tuesday to resume the fence construction that had been postponed for the rainy season, report local residents and other officials on the border. (more…)

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The European Union (EU) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) inked an agreement to improve the living standards of registered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh yesterday, according to sources. (more…)

Twenty eight Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who had been hiding in the jungles for many years, in an effort to avoid the Burmese Army, fled to the Thai-Burma border earlier this month. Prior to going into hiding, they used to live in villages in Karenni State’s district no. 2. (more…)

Chiang Mai, Thailand – Countries in the Mekong region have indeed opened their borders and former foes become friends, but several of them are still ruled by authoritarian governments that put limits on media and other freedoms. (more…)

Bangkok —Speaking at a dinner talk on Tuesday night, city governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said that Thailand’s already-precarious stability faces an additional spoiler across the border in Burma. (more…)

Singapore — There are no signs of progress towards democratic change in Myanmar despite Washington’s decision to hold direct talks with the country’s military rulers, a senior US diplomat said Wednesday. (more…)

Burma is one of the countries worst affected by extreme weather resulting from climate change, according to a new report that assesses the impact of global warming over a period of nearly two decades. (more…)

The British government should lead the way in condemning Burma’s brutal repression of its own people, say Caroline Cox and Benedict Rogers. (more…)

The Burmese military junta thrives on a cycle of corruption, which has spread its tentacles to all the government’s civil sectors as well, said locals. (more…)

These days, local political groups and foreign media are found hand in glove making various comments on the open letter Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has delivered to the Head of State. In particular, very repeatedly, they are suggesting that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s offer be honoured, and criticizing that it was not proper the offer had not been responded yet. Apparently, they are putting pressure on our country to shape itself into one to the liking of the West Bloc, by chopping and changing about the case. (more…)