Expectations of Burma’s looming elections are low among the National Democratic Force (NDF) party, which was granted permission to register for the polls yesterday. (more…)

Yangon – Heavy rain in Myanmar has triggered floods and landslides, washing away bridges, blocking roads and killing at least 12 people, district officials said on Wednesday. (more…)

Yangon – FOUR people were killed and another was seriously injured when a military helicopter crashed in central Myanmar during bad weather on Wednesday, officials said. (more…)

The Wa Democratic Party (WDP) that has been granted permission to float a political party to contest the elections, ‘doesn’t represent the Wa people,’ a Wa elder living on the Sino-Burma border recently told SHAN. (more…)

Hanoi – Myanmar faces a tough task to eradicate extreme poverty and meet other global development goals, while political instability is holding back Thailand’s progress, the UN development chief says. (more…)

International human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday called on the Malaysian government to provide better rights to the country’s refugees—most of whom are Burmese. (more…)

A NAVY captain from Myanmar’s repressive military regime has attended an Auckland security conference. (more…)

Burma’s top military leaders are angry. Despite their best efforts to keep the world’s prying eyes out of their affairs, another member of the armed forces has come forward, at great personal risk, to reveal all he knows about the regime’s dirty little secrets. (more…)