Yangon – A Myanmar court will hand down its verdict next week on an American charged with forgery and currency infractions after being accused of trying to foment rebellion against the country’s military rulers. (more…)

Yangon – A Myanmar Air Force fighter plane crashed on Friday morning while attempting to land at Yangon airport, killing its pilot, an airport official said. (more…)

A senior UN official in Burma has congratulated the ruling junta on steps it has taken to tackle human trafficking, during a meeting yesterday of six Mekong states in Bagan. (more…)

The Burmese government will not be collecting tax from immigrant workers and their families once their nationality has been identified, the Employment Department’s deputy director-general said yesterday. (more…)

Burma’s government privatization commission has announced that it is selling more than 100 state-owned buildings and factories as part of the latest wave of privatizations in the military-ruled country. (more…)

Rights violations by Burma’s junta has caused more damage than Cyclone Nargis, a Philippines senator and top member of the world’s leading body of parliamentarians said on Thursday. (more…)

A top US official said engagement with Burma can’t be a one-way process and indicated the US is not getting an adequate response from the Burmese military junta. (more…)

The inconsistent foreign policy of the United States towards Asian countries has gifted an opportunity to China to enhance its influence over regional countries including military-ruled Burma, Senator Jim Webb said on Thursday during a hearing of which he chaired. (more…)

Faced with criticism of his leadership style last summer, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon repeatedly defended his tenure by claiming credit for opening the door to international aid workers in Burma following Cyclone Nargis and saving more than 500,000 lives. (more…)

A leading rights watchdog has reported a global rise in the number of state-sanctioned abuses against “rights defenders”, fueled in part by the inability of the rights movement to protect victims. (more…)

Eight activists have been charged for their role in the September 2007 uprising, more than two years after police in Burma launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests. (more…)

The Burmese military junta is keeping up its relentless pressure and has forced yet another ethnic Kachin armed group in Northeastern Burma to transform to smaller militias under the Burmese Army early this month, said sources in the armed group. (more…)

Itanagar, India – The Centre is unlikely to seal the Indo-Myanmar border though the government is aware that the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, bordering Myanmar, is often used as a haven by militants operating in the region, minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju said today. (more…)

Reports that the Burmese junta is planning to relax restrictions on the import of cars, buses and heavy equipment has created strong demand for US dollars and dollar-denominated foreign exchange certificates (FECs), putting pressure on the national currency, the kyat. (more…)

The Burmese military junta has recently stepped up military, trading and social relations with Vietnam, Asean’s current chair. (more…)

Culture-related senior officials of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) held preliminary coordination meeting in Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan to prepare report for a ministerial-level roundtable scheduled for Saturday in Nay Pyi Taw, an official daily reported Thursday. (more…)

Nay Pyi Taw – The opening ceremony of the 7th Senior Officials Meeting for Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) was held at Golden Palace Hotel in Bagan this morning. (more…)

Burma’s human rights record continued to deteriorate in 2009 ahead of a scheduled elections in 2010, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). (more…)

New Delhi – With Burma nurturing nuclear ambitions, the country’s pro-democracy activists in Japan are gearing up to hold a protest rally on Friday, as representatives from Asian countries including Burma assemble in Tokyo to attend a seminar on ‘Nuclear Security’ with officials of the IAEA. (more…)

Burmese authorities have drafted and plan to introduce a new anti-terrorism law this year, according to a report in this month’s journal of the Myanmar Times. (more…)