A UN human rights committee has condemned Burma’s recent elections, saying they were neither free nor fair. (more…)

Washington — The US House of Representatives on Thursday condemned Myanmar’s recent elections and said no government there can be legitimate without the participation of Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

United Nations – The UN General Assembly committee that deals with human rights issues adopted separate resolutions by strong majorities, condemning human rights violations in Iran, Burma and North Korea. (more…)

DAW Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s icon of democracy, might have spent most of the past 20 years under house arrest, but it is clear that none of that has affected her political acumen. Only days after her release last Saturday, Ms Suu Kyi said that she might seek to get Western economic sanctions on Myanmar lifted, thus marking a significant shift from a previous position. (more…)

Burma’s pro-democracy leader talks about her life in captivity, her first days of freedom and the fight ahead. (more…)

Washington, DC – The U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), a Washington DC-based organization campaigning for freedom, justice and democracy in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, denounced today the military regime for its threat to drive out the people living with HIV/AIDS from the shelter provided to them by members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. On the night of November 18th, 2010, local regime authorities from No. 18 Block, Dagon Myothit (South) Township in Rangoon summoned U Super (aka) U Htin Aung, a volunteer helping HIV/AIDS patients taking shelter at House No. 376, Kambawza 2nd Street, a house rented by the NLD members specifically to provide a home to HIV/AIDs patients.  The local regime official informed him that they will not extend temporary residence permits to any of the over 120 patients in the house when their current permits expire on November 24, 2010. Burma’s democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was recently released from house arrest, visited the house one day before, on Nov 17, and encouraged and comforted the patients who, like tens of thousands of other HIV infected persons, have been ignored by the military authorities. (more…)

Pretoria – South Africa will use its second term on the UN Security Council to promote and protect human rights across the globe, said President Jacob Zuma. (more…)

It was hard not to be moved both by the demeanour of Aung San Suu Kyi when she was freed from house arrest in Yangon on November 13th, and by the popular reaction to her freedom. Her grace, courage and good humour seem undiminished. Meanwhile, the thousands who flocked to her gate demolished the myth that she is no longer central to Myanmar’s politics. Yet in the euphoria of the moment, it was easy to forget that those politics, too, are in essence unchanged. The foundations for the optimism she herself professes seem flimsy. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that her recent release from seven years of detention did not signal a softening in the military’s harsh, decades-long rule of the Southeast Asian nation. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi says she wants to hold wide-ranging talks on Burma’s future. (more…)

New York – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held his first telephone conversation Thursday with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar pro-democracy icon, in which they called for the release of all political prisoners in the Asian country. (more…)

The pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has won Burma’s elections after gaining 76.5 percent of seats across the three parliaments, according to the country’s supreme election authority. (more…)

Bangkok – The release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, has revived the prospect that the sanctions which have locked western energy, engineering and tourism companies out of one of the last untapped economies of Asia may be lifted. (more…)

Geneva — The World Health Organization says countries are not doing enough to detect drug-resistant malaria, which is spreading in Southeast Asia. (more…)

Tokyo – Visiting U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres met Thursday in Tokyo with some 25 refugees from Myanmar who recently arrived in Japan from a camp in Thailand under a U.N.-promoted program, and expressed his wish that they be successfully resettled. (more…)

Beijing – China is now the only country to detain a Nobel Peace laureate after Myanmar released Aung San Suu Kyi, but experts say the unwonted limelight will not prod Beijing into freeing dissident writer Liu Xiaobo anytime soon. (more…)

Washington – The United States criticized China, North Korea and Myanmar as well as Iran for restricting religious freedom by persecution and urged them to improve the situation in a report released Wednesday. (more…)

Burma’s military regime may have released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in order to convince countries that have imposed sanctions on the junta to ease or lift the restrictions and to strengthen economic ties with its trading partners, according to some Burma analysts. (more…)

Bangkok – Just days after releasing Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, Myanmar’s military rulers have a message for investors with a steely appetite for risk: their isolated country is open for business. (more…)

What happened in Yangon’s University Avenue as the light began to fade last Saturday took many serious Myanmar watchers by surprise. (more…)