Yangon, 13 Nov – Chief of Myanmar Police Force Brig-Gen Khin Yi of the Ministry of Home Affairs went to the house of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at No 54/56 on University Avenue, Shwetaunggya Ward-1, Bahan Township at 5 pm today and read the order of the ministry on granting pardon for her on 13 November 2010 when the period of the suspended sentence is up. (more…)

Chiang Mai  – Political parties are making efforts to expose the junta’s electoral fraud since its watchdog, the Union Election Commission, announced its list of successful members of parliament. They are however running into yet another structural obstacle to fairness: to charge a local or national election commission with electoral fraud requires they must submit a one million kyat (US$1,000) deposit. (more…)

Two Kachin women in Hugawng Valley, in Burma’s Kachin State, were sexually abused by workers of the Yuzana Company, a local agricultural project supported by the military regime, according to sources close to the victims. (more…)

OO KRAY KEE, Burma: In the mountain village of Oo Kray Kee, the first rooster crows more than an hour before sunrise as soldiers of the Karen National Liberation Army roll from their hammocks. During the night rocket-propelled grenades and mortars could be heard in the distance as rebel soldiers clashed with forces of Burma’s military regime. Battles have escalated since the national election on November 7, partly because the poll was seen as unfair by the Karen and other ethnic minorities, many of whom were excluded from the vote. (more…)

Hundreds of refugees have fled a second wave of fighting along Burma’s border with Thailand close to Waw Lay, a former stronghold of a breakaway Karen army faction.
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China, Myanmar and Thailand agreed to study a $10 billion hydropower project that would be Southeast Asia’s largest by generation capacity, the Chinese government said. (more…)

Indonesia “has welcomed” results of the Myanmar elections where the ruling military junta’s parties won the vast majority of the seats contested, while at the same time pushing for reconciliation. (more…)

Beijing – China is confident that Myanmar will continue its process of peace and ethnic reconciliation, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, in Beijing’s first official reaction to the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website

[Unattributed article from the "General" page: "VN supports Myanmar's national reconciliation, concord"]
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New York: East Timor’s President, Jose Ramos-Horta, has urged the United States and Europe to lift sanctions against Burma after the junta released the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (more…)

Ratnagiri on Maharashtra’s Konkan coast is nearly 4,000km from Mandalay, Myanmar’s last royal capital and its second largest city. (more…)

Myanmar (Burma) is perennially ranked along with North Korea as one of the world’s worst countries for human rights abuses. (more…)

Washington – The United States plans to hold talks with Myanmar’s new military-backed rulers as it assesses U.S. sanctions after the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Department said on Monday. (more…)

Britain has pledged aid to more than 100,000 people in western Burma still lacking adequate food and water following cyclone Giri last month. (more…)

The Nov. 7 general election in Myanmar has become a cause for concern for many, with critics calling it undemocratic, because it prohibited the leading opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), from contesting. (more…)

After a seven-year public absence from Burma’s political scene, Aung San Suu Kyi reappeared to the cheering jubilation of a huge crowd of supporters. The adulation she received, coupled with her first public comments, demonstrated that nothing about Suu Kyi has changed except the wrinkles on her face. (more…)

The release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest was an auspicious moment. While her release may provide a headache for the the junta, it has provided a moment of joy and hope for a democratic struggle plagued with failures. (more…)

“I will continue to work for national reconciliation among the people, among all of us. There is no one that I cannot work or talk with; if there is a will to work together, it can be done. If there is a will to talk to one another, it can be done. I will take this path….. These problems are not going to be resolved overnight. We’ve all got to learn the meaning of reconciliation. We don’t want conflicts to be resolved through armed battles. It has always been our policy. We want them to be resolved through dialogue and reconciliation and I am very, very saddened that our country is still at a point where conflicts are to be resolved through force of power.” – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (NLD headquarters, November 14)

Yangon, Myanmar — On her first full day of freedom after more than seven years of house arrest, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, demonstrated the enduring power of her popularity on Sunday, drawing thousands of jubilant supporters to a rally at which she pledged to lead them in a struggle for political change. (more…)

New Delhi – Khin Maung Swe, leader of the National Democratic Force, told Mizzima he was delighted pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been released and that his National Democratic Force was ready to co-operate with her. (more…)