Yangon, Myanmar — The death toll from heavy flooding and landslides last week rose to 63 as relief efforts continued in northwestern Myanmar, state media reported Monday. (more…)

In preparation for the upcoming election, Burmese authorities have tasked 600 schoolteachers in Rangoon Division with the mission of organizing voter lists and inputting the information on computers, according to sources in Rangoon. (more…)

More defections from the Burmese Army have come to light following the desertion of Maj Sai Thein Win, the source of the latest exposé of the ruling military junta’s nuclear weapons programme, sources on the Thai-Burma border said. (more…)

Bangkok – Once again, parents in military-ruled Burma are counting the cost of a primary education for their children in public schools. It is an annual ritual that comes with the beginning of a new school year, which coincides with the onset of the monsoon rains in June. (more…)

Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) — Statements were released by figures of Finland and Myanmar on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il’s start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. (more…)

U Tin Win sends reply to Director Mr. Marco Marzo of Division of Operations A, Department of Safeguards, IAEA. No activity related to nuclear programme has been carried out in the past, is ongoing or is planned for the future in Myanmar. (more…)

Mae Sot — The popular Burmese Web site photayokeking.org, edited by a Burmese army deserter, was recently attacked, leaving it inaccessible and out of operation. (more…)

The government plans to develop a land transport route linking Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province with the port of Dawei in Burma as a gateway to markets to the west of the country. (more…)

AN estimated 1.3 million people in Myanmar are living with a physical or intellectual disability, according to a survey completed last year. (more…)

Rebels manufacturing massive quantities of drugs to sell for missiles and guns as they plan fight against junta. (more…)

Nearly 50,000 Burmese nationals last year applied for asylum with the UN refugee agency, around three-quarters of these in Malaysia alone. (more…)

The Immigration Department says 31 asylum seekers are continuing their protest at the Darwin detention centre. (more…)

Any movement from dictatorship to democracy “is likely to be prolonged and difficult,” a national leader once wrote. “Hope and optimism are irrepressible, but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious.” (more…)

GROUPS all over the world, including in Dublin, took advantage of the 65th birthday of Aung San Su Kyi to pressurise jailers in her native Burma to release her, and hold genuinely democratic elections later this year. (more…)

During the time we were struggling to expel the British from our shores, this was a famous chant: “A hardship for the British, an opportunity for the Burmese.” (more…)

The Prime Minister has written an open letter of support to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is 65 today. (more…)

Burma Campaign today warmly welcomed British Prime Minister David Cameron’s letter of support for Aung San Suu Kyi on her 65th birthday, and asked him to take the lead in supporting UN led efforts to secure negotiations between the dictatorship and Burma’s democracy movement. (more…)

On the 65th Birth anniversary of the Burmese democratic leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Indian Parliamentarian’s Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB) urged the Group of Friends on Myanmar and UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon to take effective action to secure the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and over 2,000 political prisoners in Burma. (more…)

The European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma has written an open letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of Burma’s democracy movement, on the occasion of her 65th birthday. The European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma represents MPs from sixteen countries. (more…)

Burma activists are urging the Australian Government to listen to the Victorian branch of Australian Labor Party (ALP) who has called for trade and investment sanctions to be imposed on Burma. (more…)