The advertising agency JWT has teamed up with Human Rights Watch for an unusual display in Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday that seeks to generate support for freeing political prisoners in Myanmar (formerly Burma). (more…)

Burma’s opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been honoured with an award created in memory of the assassinated former Pakistan prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. (more…)

The evidence presented in the Democratic Voice of Burma’s documentary, “Burma’s Nuclear Ambitions”, is thorough, compelling and alarming. Although Burma’s pursuit of nuclear weapons has long been rumoured, the documentary contains new information from a recent defector who provided DVB with photographs, documents and a view from inside the secretive military that should finally put to rest any doubt about Burma’s nuclear ambition. The evidence includes chemical processing equipment for converting uranium compounds into forms for enrichment, reactors and bombs. Taken altogether in Burma’s covert programme, they have but one use – nuclear weapons. (more…)

AS Myanmar pro-democracy and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 65th birthday last Saturday in incarceration in her dilapidated lakeside compound in Yangon, calls for her freedom reverberated across the world. (more…)

UN group condemns continuing ‘illegal’ detention of Myanmarese democracy leader. (more…)

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…)