Yangon, Myanmar — The party of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi quietly commemorated the anniversary Thursday of its victory in elections 20 years ago and stood by its decision not to register for new polls to be held later this year. (more…)

Nay Pyi Taw – A fire broke out on the fourth floor of Mingala Market in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Yangon, at about 8.30 am on 24 May and was put out at about 5.05 am yesterday. (more…)

Nearly 200 people gathered in Mae Sot on Thursday morning as part of a global campaign against this year’s general election in Burma. (more…)

Six of Burma’s armed ethnic groups have agreed at a meeting held in Thailand on May 21-23 to help each other if the Burmese junta launches a military attack on one of their members. (more…)

Women from Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar are increasingly marrying Chinese men in Yunnan province, despite such marriages being illegal. Li Yingqing and Guo Anfei report (more…)

Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh:  Bangladesh authorities have launched a fresh crackdown on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since May 24, said sources from Cox’s Bazaar. (more…)

Ethnic paramilitary groups and the wider population may rebel after the planned 2010 election in
Myanmar, spiralling the junta-led country further into chaos, ethnic leaders and civil groups said Wednesday. (more…)

Brussels – EU efforts to get experts into Myanmar to check democratic conditions for scheduled elections are “not finalised,” foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton’s office said on Thursday. (more…)

In Myanmar’s last elections, twenty years ago today, the people of Myanmar voted for a democratic change by overwhelmingly electing the National League for Democracy (NLD). However, the people’s desire was never honored. (more…)

On the twentieth anniversary of Burma’s historic 1990 elections, the Burmese military government shows no signs of relaxing its stranglehold on power, Human Rights Watch said today. (more…)

Twenty years ago today, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party swept Myanmar’s elections, but the army refused to allow the results to be implemented. Later this year Myanmar will vote again in a process certain to be seriously flawed but whose results and the constitution to be brought into force will redefine the political landscape, influencing opportunities to push for long-overdue social, economic and political reforms. (more…)

PEN American Center welcomed the release of imprisoned Burmese poet Saw Wei today, calling the release “long overdue.” Saw Wei was freed nearly five months after his sentence expired and two and a half years after he was sent to prison for “inducing crime against public tranquility” for one of his poems. (more…)