Reform of the youth wing of Burma’s main opposition party is underway following a warning from detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi that the party was being restricted by an ageing leadership. (more…)

Burmese journalists say the state’s censorship board has cracked down hard following the publication of a story about a young girl’s malpractice death in a Rangoon clinic. (more…)

Maungdaw: The Burmese military authority has tasked two Muslim businessmen from Rangoon to organize the Muslim community in Maungdaw Township on the western border to support the National United Party in the forthcoming 2010 election, said a local Muslim leader. (more…)

Yangon – China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has secured exclusive ownership and management rights over a planned 771-kilometre, overland Myanmar-China crude oil pipeline, industry sources said Tuesday. (more…)

Putting aside any thought of the grim circumstances they left behind, a dozen new Burmese refugees lifted their voices Monday in the crowded vestibule of the International Institute on Delaware Avenue. (more…)

Washington – If talks with Myanmar over democratic reforms fail, the Obama administration could tie up large amounts of money that the country’s ruling generals stash in international banks from the sale of natural gas. (more…)

Detained Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time in nearly a year was allowed to meet with elder members of her opposition political party, the National League of Democracy. The Nobel Peace laureate was taken from her home in Rangoon where she is under house arrest to a state guest house for a brief opportunity to pay her respects to the party’s chairman, secretary and a member of the central committee. During the meeting, Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly asked their permission to reorganize the party. (more…)

Washington – Today, Freedom Now submitted an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, on American Nyi Nyi Aung’s behalf. (more…)