Section: General News – Following the arson attack on Thailand’s Stock Exchange headquarters, Myanmar’s underground lottery bookies have had to stop taking bets as the winning numbers are based on the Thai stock market figures. (more…)

Taipei, Taiwan – The Okinawa monorail station in Japan reportedly mistook the national flag of Myanmar as that of Taiwan, a local cable TV station reported yesterday. (more…)

There’s a saying in Burma that, roughly translated, says you go to Mawlamyine for food, to Mandalay for conversation and to Rangoon to show off. Poor Rangoon. Since the military shifted the seat of government to newly constructed Naypyidaw in late 2005, the city cannot even be described as the top place to display ill-gotten wealth anymore. (more…)

All the people of Burma including Monks, Students and Youths,

1. The day of 27th May 2010 will mark 20th anniversary of 1990 Election in which the people representatives overwhelmingly won a landslide victory. The results of that election is interpreted as that of the Burmese people’s ongoing struggle for democracy begin with the 1988 prodemocracy movements, by truly expressing of their determination. (more…)

Lower-ranking administration officials in 10 Rangoon division wards have resigned from their posts, reportedly in frustration at their maligned reputation among Burmese citizens. (more…)

Yangon – Two years after the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis created a rare opening for foreign assistance into Myanmar, aid workers say they still face numerous operating challenges. (more…)

Yangon – A huge fire broke out in a commercial centre housing 4,000 shops and stalls in Myanmar’s biggest city Monday but no casualties were reported, firefighters and traders said. (more…)

Chiang Mai – The Burmese junta’s state censor has temporarily suspended the publishing licences of two journals that reported the filing of an assault case against actress Htet Htet Moe Oo by a reporter from the Seven Days journal. (more…)

Burmese people are getting more and more ingenious at finding ways to cope without a reliable power supply. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that China is getting better at cashing in on our electricity-starved lifestyle. (more…)

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burma’s border security force-(Nasaka) has been using villagers in Maungdaw Township as forced labourers for road construction since the beginning of May, said a local trader. (more…)

Madrid – The European Union is planning to send a mission to Myanmar as part of a new approach to press the country’s ruling junta to adopt democracy, sources of the Spanish EU presidency said Monday. (more…)

United Nations — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the UN Security Council to consider tough measures against countries and insurgent groups that persist in recruiting child soldiers. (more…)

Snr-Gen Than Shwe is a worried man. He has called for an election which will change the course of the nation’s history. He single-handedly created the Constitution to safeguard his future and to protect his interests, formulated the election laws and presumably will schedule an election this year. (more…)

International pressure continues to mount on the oil companies Total, Chevron, and PTTEP of Thailand to practice complete revenue transparency in connection to the controversial Yadana natural gas pipeline in Burma’s Tenasserim Division. Non-governmental organizations, scholars, labour unions, investment firms, and even world leaders have urged the companies to publish over 18 years of payments to the Burmese military regime, including taxes, fees, royalties, bonuses, and social benefits since the project’s first contracts were signed in 1992. (more…)

Actor and philanthropist Kyaw Thu has been formally assisting Burma’s neediest citizens for nearly a decade. In January 2001, he started the Free Funeral Services Society (FFSS) under the patronage of U Thukha, a well-known writer and movie director. Since March 2007, the FFSS, which provides free funerals for the poor, has also operated a clinic for those who can’t afford to go to hospitals. Kyaw Thu also played prominent role in spearheading private relief efforts for victims of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the Irrawaddy delta in May 2008. (more…)

While Thailand’s increasingly volatile political crisis attracts the attention of much of the world’s media, people in Burma are getting only a trickle of information about the situation in a country that is host to a vast Burmese migrant population. (more…)

The newly floated Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led by Prime Minister Thein Sein is on a recruiting drive in Shan State North and Shan State East using the power of its parent organization the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), border sources said. (more…)

Heat-wave conditions are prevailing in Burma with temperatures soaring up to 44 degree Celsius in Dawphu village, Karenni State. (more…)

New Delhi – Burma’s High Court has summoned lawyers for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her eldest brother to present arguments next Friday in a dispute over renovations to her crumbling lakeside villa in Rangoon, a lawyer for Suu Kyi told Mizzima.   (more…)

A Thai army soldier was been shot dead earlier this week by a Burmese army corporal on the Thai-Burma border, locals say. (more…)