Yangon, Myanmar – Myanmar’s military leader Tuesday urged the rural masses to counter pro-democracy forces said to be seeking to disrupt stability before the country’s first general elections in 20 years. (more…)

The Burmese military authorities in Kalemyo, Sagaing division western Burma have been rounding up youths for recruitment into the army. (more…)

The European Union announced Tuesday the allocation of 17.25 million euros (23.4 million dollars) in humanitarian aid for Myanmar’s “vulnerable people” this year. (more…)

The Burmese government is to alter its valuation of the Burmese kyat to the dollar, resulting in a doubling of tax on imported goods along the China-Burma border, a businessman there said. (more…)

The documentary “Burma VJ” is in the running for an Oscar for best feature-documentary at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards show which will be broadcast worldwide on Sunday night in the United States. (more…)

The news from Burma, my home country, seems to only go from bad to worse. Last week, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was denied yet another appeal and will remain under house arrest. Last month, Burmese-American human-rights activist Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, was sentenced to three-years in prison on trumped up fraud and forgery charges. (more…)

BURMAS SUPREME COURT HAS JUST REJECTED THE APPEAL of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against a verdict finding her guilty of violating the rules of her house arrest. The outcome is disappointing but not unexpected. The process was never about the rule of law or justice, and the trial itself was a sham. There was really no reason to think the appeal would be any better. (more…)

Nay Pyi Taw – The following is a translation of the message sent by Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe on the occasion of the Peasants Day (2010). (more…)

The Irrawaddy recently interviewed Tin Oo, 83, the vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who was recently released from almost seven years under house arrest. (more…)

Ignoring its stated commitments to social responsibility in foreign investment projects, the Chinese government has failed to reply to numerous public appeals from affected peoples and petitions submitted by overseas Kachin to Chinese embassies in five countries to stop the Irrawaddy-Myitsone dam project in Kachin State, Burma. (more…)